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UK refuses to join Iran conflict amid Trump pressure

Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy has confirmed Britain will not join the US-led conflict with Iran, calling Trump's attacks on Keir Starmer "small and petty" and designed to bully the UK into alignment. Starmer himself faces a separate domestic crisis, heading to the Commons to answer for the Mandelson vetting scandal after civil servants in the Foreign Office withheld information from him. The dual pressure — foreign and domestic — comes as sacked Foreign Office head Olly Robbins is set to give parliamentary testimony.

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Starmer will not be swayed by Trump’s ‘small and petty’ insults, says Lammy

The Guardian · Apr 19