The prime minister gave a statement to the Commons explaining his policy on only taking defensive reaction in regards to Donald Trump’s war with Iran and has ‘learnt the lessons of Iraq’

The prime minister had previously refused to give the US permission to use RAF bases in Cyprus but has relented because of the indiscriminate nature of Iran’s retaliation

The lessons of Starmer’s predecessors and his own political weakness will prevent him from fully joining Trump’s war with Iran, says political editor David Maddox