Keir Starmer has promised to look at using “every lever that’s available to the government” to help people cope with the impact on the cost of living of the US-Israel war against Iran, as he prepares for an emergency meeting with senior ministers.
The prime minister will chair a meeting of the Cobra committee to discuss possible contingency measures on Monday afternoon, joining Andrew Bailey, the governor of the Bank of England, Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, Ed Miliband, the energy secretary, and Yvette Cooper, the foreign secretary.
