The mother of a freed British-Israeli hostage has accused Sir Keir Starmer of "rewarding" Hamas after the UK government said it would formally recognise a Palestinian state. Watch: Starmer says UK recognises Palestinian stateBut Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said a Palestinian state "will not happen", and that leaders who had declared recognition were "giving a huge reward to terrorism". Israel's foreign ministry said recognition of the Palestinian state was "nothing but a reward for jihadist Hamas". Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch called the decision to recognise a Palestinian state "absolutely disastrous". Reform UK's leader Nigel Farage, however, said the prime minister was "wrong to recognise a Palestinian state".