So yeah, well, I mean you, please you're a professor you've got this this whole view of the universe and, and now this as well and I know you want to to infect others with such love but before we get to that, I believe it was when you were a child and there was a a whole experience with a telescope and your father that perhaps kickstarted.
Just tell us a bit more. That's right. I think at the time I wasn't aware of the impression that it made on me. But it was about 10 years old and my dad was a civil engineer, always had lots of different projects going on, and he built his own telescope.
And I think more importantly, he's completely failed to give any details on the way he will assess and measure whether to recognize or not or we've heard this morning is that it's under review and they'll review it again in September. The other point to make is that the recognition is only meaningful if it's part of a formal peace process and we're not even at the.Thought of that process and recognition. Recognition itself cannot be the very first step of that process. Why'd you say it's an appeasement policy? I mean, this is appeasement of Hamas, no. Well, it's a very loaded term.
Well, first of all, office backbenchers. So I've been in parliament many times and I pressed I, David Lammy and his teams about the Gaza conflict, something like 20.Times at the dispatch box in the House of Commons. And it's very, very clear that the government's position was out of kilter with their backbenchers.
And this is political in the sense that they've come under enormous pressure. And I think it's fair to say for Keir Starmer, this isn't the first time he's come under pressure from his backbenchers to recognize Bionuty, and he's done so at a time.