Nigel Farage, the Reform UK leader, stated that Sir Keir Starmer's relationship with Donald Trump is 'over'. Farage said he saw very little prospect of the relationship between Trump and Starmer improving. Donald Trump has publicly criticized Sir Keir Starmer for refusing to grant the US permission to use British military bases for the first wave of attacks on Iran.
Trump insisted that Sir Keir Starmer was 'not Winston Churchill' amid the row. Sir Keir Starmer has now given the green light for 'defensive' US action against Iranian missile sites from UK bases. After reports that the UK was preparing an aircraft carrier to go to the Middle East, Donald Trump said 'we don't need them any longer'.
Even now, the British Prime Minister is calling for a negotiated settlement with the Iranians, provided they promise to give up nuclear weapons. Well, we did all this back in 2015. This relationship with Trump and Starmer is over.
Sir Keir Starmer spoke to Donald Trump on Sunday about the countries' military cooperation. Starmer insisted that it was really important to emphasise that the US and the UK are working together every single day, as they always have. The exact content of the conversation between Sir Keir Starmer and Donald Trump on Sunday has not been disclosed.
What specific defensive US actions against Iranian missile sites from UK bases have been authorized remains unclear. Farage was quoted as saying, 'Even now, the British Prime Minister is calling for a negotiated settlement with the Iranians, provided they promise to give up nuclear weapons. Well, we did all this back in 2015.
But we will remember. We don't need people that join wars after we've already won!
' Trump added, 'But we will remember.