US president delivers stinging criticism of UK prime minister over delayed support for Iran war
Donald Trump has renewed his stinging criticism of UK prime minister Keir Starmer over the lack of immediate UK support for the US-Israeli strikes on Iran.
“The United Kingdom, our once Great Ally, maybe the Greatest of them all, is finally giving serious thought to sending two aircraft carriers to the Middle East,” Trump wrote on his social media platform, adding: “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer – But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”
The put-down comes after the UK said it would allow US forces to use bases in Fairford, Gloucestershire, and Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean, for “specific and limited defensive purpose” after initially refusing the US permission.
Trump’s statement came hours after the UK ministry of defence announced that four US bombers had landed at an Royal Air Force base in Britain on Friday and Saturday and had already “started using British bases” to carry out operations “to prevent Iran firing missiles into the region, which is putting British lives at risk”.
