UK, France and Canada recognising Palestine will ‘change nothing on the ground'
'It would be symbolic just as we now know that Canada is joining the UK and France in declaring it will also recognise the Palestinian State at the UN General Assembly in September,' Mr Ware said.
'That will have not insignificant symbolic importance – it's true nothing will change on the ground.'
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