War: Best thing is negotiation with Iran — Starmer defends UK stance

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Keir Starmer, has said the UK is doing everything it tin to calm the concern successful Iran, which is precise antithetic from US President Donald Trump, who wants to alteration the regime.

Trump had already said it’s “too late” for Iran’s leaders to talk.

Starmer explained his determination not to articulation the archetypal attacks by the US and Israel implicit the weekend, saying helium inactive believes successful his determination and claims it did not harm the peculiar relationship.

Some Gulf countries and Cyprus person criticized Starmer for not doing capable to support their allies and British radical harmless from Iranian attacks successful the region. He has besides faced idiosyncratic attacks from Trump.

The Prime Minister said that each curate connected the National Security Council agreed with the UK’s stance connected US usage of British bases, and helium denied reports that immoderate furniture members, particularly the Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, were against this decision.

He told reporters that the UK volition usage its subject and diplomatic powerfulness to support British radical safe. This includes sending 4 much Typhoon combatant planes to Cyprus connected Thursday, on with 2 helicopters susceptible of intercepting missiles.

In a beardown effect to his critics some astatine location and abroad, helium said: “It means having the courageousness to instrumentality to our values and principles, adjacent erstwhile there’s unit to alteration them.

“The UK has always...