Simply a week back, after a sit-down dish with Donald Trump at the G7 top, Keir Starmer was informing press reporters that ‘absolutely nothing the head of state claimed recommends he will obtain associated with this dispute’.
It appeared, and should have appeared to UK federal government authorities as well, that weeks of asking for de-escalation and diplomacy had actually repaid– that Donald Trump was not ready to interfere in Israel’s battle in Iran
After that, on Saturday evening, the United States released a huge strike on 3 nuclear websites in Iran.
Replacement political editor Jessica Elgot talks with Starmer and his federal government’s feedback to the rising situation because.
And Helen Pidd asks, offered the UK’s close connection to the United States, might it still be dragged right into this dispute?
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