UK urges Palestinian leaders to make Trump a peace plan counteroffer

Foreign Office minister James Cleverly urged Palestinian leaders to engage with US President Donald Trump (Niall Carson/PA)

The UK has urged the Palestinian authorities to make a counteroffer to Donald Trump’s controversial peace plan.

The US president’s plan for a solution to the Israel/Palestinian conflict would foresee the eventual creation of a Palestinian state but it falls far short of Palestinian demands and would leave sizeable chunks of the occupied West Bank in Israeli hands.