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Iran has fired two intermediate-range ballistic missiles at Diego Garcia, the joint UK-US military base
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I guess you could argue Nile Gardner, playing devil's advocate, Keir Starmer could say, well, look, guys, I was right all along
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I didn't want to drag us into this war. Now British troops, British bases are at risk because these strikes have come just hours
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front page of the Times, just hours after Starmer agreed President Trump could use Diego Garcia to launch strikes
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In response, it doesn't take an idiot to work it out, Iran has now targeted Diego Garcia
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So Keir Starmer could wake up tomorrow and say amongst his inner circle, well, look, I was right
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We've been dragged into it now. You know, I think that Keir Starmer has a choice
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He can either be an appeaser, which is, I think, his instinct as a sort of human rights lawyer
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Or he can be someone who, in this case, Keir Starmer needs to borrow a spine from somebody else because he doesn't have one
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But he could be a prime minister who actually stands up for Britain on the world stage
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and orders a UK military response to Iranian aggression. I fear that because of his weakness
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that Keir Starmer may not do anything at all. And his instinct probably is to go to the United Nations go to international courts His instinct would not be initially certainly to take military action But there will be many voices of course in Westminster who
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will urge the Prime Minister to do the right thing. So we'll have to see what happens
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But so far, his performance on Iran has been an absolute disgrace, really disastrous. Weakness
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actually, only invites aggression. He should have been on day one standing shoulder to shoulder
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with the United States, supporting military action, and also British fighter jets joining the United States and bombing Iran
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This should have been done on day one. He hasn't done that. Now Britain, of course, is under direct attack
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We took out drones with typhoons. You had some very limited British military action
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But we need to see the UK really standing up on the world stage
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Let's not forget, just three generations ago, Britain was the world superpower
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It had the biggest navy in the world. And today we need to see the UK, I think, rediscovering a sense of greatness
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and standing shoulder to shoulder with our closest ally right here in the United States
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And we're just a stone's throw away from the White House here. And we need to have a prime minister who's going to stand together with the US president
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and take on one of the most monstrously evil and barbaric regimes in the world in Tehran
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So this is a fight between good and evil
