Trump: Starmer’s permission for UK bases to be used against Iran took ‘too long’

Donald Trump said he was “very disappointed” in Sir Keir Starmer for initially refusing to allow the use of the UK-US Diego Garcia base to target Iran.

The US president said it “took far too long” for the Prime Minister to change his mind.

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