Starmer warned he could make UK ‘accomplice to war crimes’ by allowing US to use British airbases – UK politics live

Lib Dems’ Ed Davey and Green leader Zack Polanski say use of UK bases for US operations in Iran should stop urgently

Ed Davey, the Lib Dem leader, has urged Keir Starmer to stop letting the US use British military bases for some of its Iran war operations to stop the UK being “an accomplice to war crimes”.

In a post on social media, Davey said that Donald Trump’s latest “shocking” threat to Iran made cancelling American use of British bases even more urgent.

And Davey also said that, if the UK does continue to allow the US to dispatch bombers from British soil for “defensive operations” (see 1.07pm), it should published details of the conditions that apply, monitor every flight that leaves and report to parliament on where those planes actually went.

Currently the government is giving almost no details about what exactly American planes flying to Iran from UK bases have been doing.