UK - Does anyone have the faintest idea what the Labour Government’s policy is towards Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran. Is it for or against? Some may think that Sir Keir Starmer supports American and Israeli action. On Saturday he described the regime in Tehran as ‘utterly abhorrent’, and added that Iran ‘must never be allowed to develop a nuclear weapon’. Yet at the same time Starmer is reported to have denied permission to the United States to use the British base on Diego Garcia, one of the Chagos Islands, to mount a strike against Iran. Not very helpful. Until 1956 and the Suez crisis, Britain was the pre-eminent Middle Eastern power. Even after having been displaced by the United States, we remained its most trusted and often indispensable ally, fighting together in both Gulf Wars... Now, under Starmer’s feeble leadership, we have become mere spectators. It is the first time this has happened in my lifetime. Donald Trump doesn’t care what we think or do as we sink into irrelevance.