Foreign Office starts planning evacution of thousands of Britons in Middle East

About 94,000 nationals thought to be in the region as tensions rise after US-Israeli attacks on Iranian regime

The Guardian
Few will mourn leader of ‘evil’ regime Ali Khamenei, says UK defence secretary

John Healey warns of ‘very real and rising threat’ from Tehran as US and Israeli military action divides political opinion

The Guardian

Donald Trump tells Iran 'better not' strike after Ayatollah Khamenei killed

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/donald-trump-tells-iran-better-36798160

Confusion over Chagos Islands deal as Foreign Office denies handover ‘paused’

Minister ‘misspoke’ by telling MPs UK was ‘pausing for discussions with our American counterparts’, officials say

The Guardian

Trump blasts Starmer’s Chagos deal — hours after US backed it – POLITICO

Under the arrangement, struck last year after months of negotiations, the joint U.S.-U.K. base will remain under the…
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Imagine being proud to meet 'friend' #Netanyahu who's wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes & genocide & starvation in #Gaza. The UK's shadow foreign secretary Priti Patel should be upholding international law but, of course, she's always lacked moral compass or decency

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Priti Patel slated after meeting with 'friend' Benjamin Netanyahu

Priti Patel has been slated for meeting with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu – who she described as a 'friend'

The National
The UK’s Conservative shadow foreign secretary, #PritiPatel, is on a trip to Israel, where she has met the deputy foreign minister, Sharren Haskel, and Amir Ohana, the Knesset speaker
‘We thought the Rwanda scheme was the worst of it’: Enver Solomon on leading – and leaving – the Refugee Council

It has been a difficult week for those working with refugees and migrants in the UK, after Labour announced controversial new plans. Sadly, Solomon is used to such turmoil. He discusses hostility, hope and asylum hotels

The Guardian

DARREN LEWIS: 'Shabana Mahmood's asylum plans are shameful betrayal of her immigrant parents'

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/darren-lewis-shabana-mahmoods-asylum-36266126

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