President Donald Trump on Tuesday stepped up his criticism of UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer for not initially permitting American warplanes to use UK bases to strike Iran, saying "this is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with".
Trump said the historical relationship between the United States and Britain was "not like it used to be", amid a diplomatic bust-up over US-Israeli strikes on Iran. "The UK has been very, very uncooperative," he said whilst seated next to German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at the White House. "I'm not happy with the UK," he said. "It's taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land."
