UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is “not going to yield” to pressure from the US president to join the conflict in Iran.
It comes after Donald Trump told that when the US asked the UK for help “they were not there”. He also suggested the tariff agreement with the UK “can always be changed”.
Sir Keir told the Commons: “I’m not going to change my mind, I’m not going to yield, it is not in our national interest to join this war and we will not do so.”
Trump has persistently criticised the prime minister after he refused to join offensive measures in the US-Israel war against Iran when it began in late February.
Responding to a question from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey about Trump’s latest comments, Sir Keir told Prime Minister’s Questions: “My position on Iran has been clear from the start, we’re not going to get dragged into this war.”
“It is not our war, a lot of pressure has been applied to me to take a different course and that pressure included what happened last night.”
“I’m not going to change my mind, I’m not going to yield, it is not in our national interest to join this war and we will not do so. I know where I stand.”
In his interview Trump was asked how he would describe the special relationship between the US and the UK. He said: “It’s the relationship where when we asked them for help, they were not there. When we needed them, they were not there.
