Supporting an independent Palestinian state is no longer official US policy, according to Mike Huckabee, America’s ambassador to Israel.

Mr Huckabee used an interview with Bloomberg to rule out a two-state solution in the Middle East, a policy first supported by George W Bush in 2002, ditched by Donald Trump at the start of his first term in 2017 and reinstated by Joe Biden.

Asked whether Washington backed a two-state solution, Mr Huckabee replied, “I don’t think so”.

He continued: “Unless there are some significant things that happen that change the culture, there’s no room for it.”

Mr Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas who ran for the White House in 2008 and 2016, is a long-standing supporter of Israel.

Upon being nominated as Washington’s ambassador to Israel, Mr Huckabee told Israeli Army Radio that he believed the annexation of Judea and Samaria – the biblical term used by Israel to describe the West Bank – was a possibility.