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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Alexandra Topping and Peter Walker

Starmer attacks Badenoch and Farage over Iran war support U-turns at raucous PMQs

Keir Starmer speaking in the Commons at PMQs
Keir Starmer told MPs the UK’s armed forces were ‘working day and night to protect British lives and British interests in the Middle East’. Photograph: House of Commons/UK Parliament/PA

Keir Starmer has attacked Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage over their stance on the war in Iran, accusing both of U-turning on their support for Donald Trump.

At a raucous prime minister’s questions, Starmer accused the leader of the opposition of making the “mother of all U-turns” and furiously trying to backpedal after on Tuesday she denied calling for the UK to join the US president’s war on Iran, after previously saying Starmer should do more to “stop the people who are attacking us”.

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