Starmer loses his cool with Tory MP in tense row over Iran conflict

Sir Keir Starmer lost his temper with Bernard Jenkin after the Conservative MP accused the prime minister of “lacking a war-fighting mentality” whilst discussing the UK’s involvement in the Iran conflict. On Monday (23 March), the PM was taking questions from the Liaison Committee when Mr Jenkin said that the Labour government was not acting with urgency and needed to get the country “ready for war”. When Sir Keir said he was finalising the investment plan, Jenkin quipped it “smacks of enormous complacency”. Raising his voice slightly, the PM fired back that it "smacks of the fact that for years there was underinvestment by the last [Conservative] government and the stripping out and hollowing out of our armed forces".