GB News halted for breaking news as Keir Starmer ripped apart with just four words

GB News was halted as Prime Minster Keir Starmer was slammed by Lord Stuart Polak, Honorary President of Conservative Friends of Israel, for claiming the UK has "played its part behind the scenes" in Donald Trump's Gaza peace deal which will see the Israeli hostages freed. "That is code for 'we didn't do anything'," he fumed as he spoke to the news channel via videolink from Jerusalem.

"It's a really, really important day," he said. "I've spent the last 24 hours with a young man, Yaakov Bohbot. (His) brother Elkanah is one of the so called 'Living 20', one of the 20 hostages that is living. I've been sitting with him over the last 24 hours. What was striking is that he has spent the last 24 hours saying to me, thank God for Donald Trump. And I listened a few moments ago to the press conference of the Prime Minister in India. And...he turned around and said, 'We have played our part behind the scenes'. That is code for we didn't do anything. We were just not at the table!" he exclaimed.

He continued: "I was also a bit shocked and surprised when he was asked the question should President Trump be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? He wouldn't answer it.

"I will. Absolutely (he should). Because what he's done here - when everybody else was just playing around, not doing anything serious...

"Certainly with the British over the last year since the Labour Party came to office, they have become irrelevant here...certainly in Jerusalem and elsewhere.

"And I just hope that we will have learned from that, and that we will actually get involved and start helping in the way that the prime minister suggested we might," he concluded.

His remarks came as Donald Trump promised "everlasting peace" in the Middle East after announcing an extraordinary deal to end the war in Gaza.

The US President said the "first phase" of his peace plan to end the conflict in Gaza had been signed. It includes a plan to pause fighting and release hostages and prisoners.

The initial agreement was confirmed by Israeli officials and Hamas, as well as mediator Qatar.

The White House said it expects the first hostages to be released Monday, a day after triumphant President Trump is due to visit the Middle East to formally endorse the peace treaty.