Since July 2024, British policy towards Israel and the wider Middle East has increasingly substituted declaratory positioning for strategy. Ceasefires, recognition, sanctions, settlement pressure, humanitarian access and preservation of the two-state formula have progressively been elevated into objectives in themselves, without sufficient attention to the security and political conditions required to make any of them

The settlement goods ban looks set to be seismic - a sign that Britain has the makings of a new, independent foreign policy

Foreign Secretary gives strongest indication yet that UK will target companies linked to Israeli settlements