Keir Starmer backs US strike on Iran but warns of wider escalation risk
by Jessica Elgot and Ben Quinn from World news | The Guardian on (#6Y524)
PM calls on Tehran to return to negotiations and holds talks with Macron and Merz after US attack on three nuclear sites
Keir Starmer has warned of a risk of escalation" in the Middle East and beyond as a result of the US bombing of Iran, but backed the strike on Iran's nuclear facilities and called on Tehran to return to negotiations.
The prime minister, who was quick to clarify that the UK had not been involved in the strikes, held talks with France's president, Emmanuel Macron, and the German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Sunday afternoon after convening a Cobra meeting in the aftermath of the US attack.
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