"If I'd asked her last week, her position would be, we support the initial strikes and we want to join the war. This week, she says, we don't want to join the war. That is the mother of all U-turns on the single most important decision a prime minister ever has to take, whether to commit the United Kingdom to war or not."
"She has utterly disqualified herself from ever becoming prime minister, thankfully she never will."
"Let me tell you what they've been doing: flying sorties in seven of the 10 countries in the region, day and night, taking out incoming strikes, protecting the lives of others whilst risking their own. If she had any decency, she'd get up and she would apologise."
During Prime Minister's Questions, Keir Starmer attacked Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage over their positions on potential UK involvement in a war with Iran. Starmer accused Badenoch of reversing her stance, stating that last week she supported joining US offensive strikes against Iranian missile bases, but this week denied wanting UK involvement in war. He characterized this as the most serious U-turn possible on whether to commit Britain to military conflict. Starmer defended the UK's military response, highlighting that RAF personnel had conducted over 230 hours of defensive operations across multiple Middle Eastern countries, shooting down drones and protecting lives. He criticized Badenoch for allegedly insulting RAF personnel by suggesting they were inactive, demanding she apologize for her comments.
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