New UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer faces a test on Palestine after an opposition political party called for the government to proceed with recognising the Middle Eastern country as a state. Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesperson Layla Moran, a British-Palestinian MP, wrote this week to Starmer’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, calling for the government to immediately and unconditionally recognise the state of Palestine. It comes after five pro-Palestinian independents, including Jeremy Corbyn – who led the Labour Party from 2015 to 2020 – won seats at the UK general election last week….