There he is in that glossy video imperiously decreeing there should be a State of Palestine, yet he can’t even hold the British state together. Here’s my question for the PM: when will you recognise the British state? Here’s my question for the PM: when will you recognise the British state? The sheer impotence of the 21st-century British state has shocked even a grizzled sceptic like me. It’s his very inability to reinvigorate the British state that draws him to the fantasy project of a Palestinian state.