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Britain’s Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said more RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East after Iran threatened to target UK, French and US bases if the countries help stop strikes on Israel.
The PM said further military assets are being deployed to provide “contingency support” across the region amid escalating hostilities between the two countries.
It is understood extra refuelling aircraft have been deployed from UK bases and more fast Typhoon jets will be sent over.
Speaking to reporters travelling with him on a visit to Canada, Sir Keir refused to rule out intervening in the conflict entirely but made clear he would continue pressing for de-escalation and said the “intense” developments over the weekend would be discussed in detail at the G7 summit.
He said: “These are obviously operational decisions and the situation is ongoing and developing and therefore I’m not going to get into the precise details, but we are moving assets, we’ve already been moving assets to the region, including jets, and that is for contingency support across the region. So that is happening.”
Sir Keir added: “Our constant message is de-escalate, and therefore everything we’re doing, all discussions we’re having are to do with de-escalation.”
