https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/mar/01/keir-starmer-donald-trump-uk-us-special-relationship-iran?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other. About time Westminster and Whitehall realises that the special relationship is dead. The postwar consensus of “all the way with the USA” is no longer in our interests.
Starmer faces greater quandary over ‘special relationship’ after Iran attack

PM is in diplomatically precarious position of declining to endorse US strikes while also refusing to condemn them

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