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Gavin Grey: UK Correspondent on Keir Starmer announcing the UK will send four fighter jets to Qatar
The UK Prime Minister has an uphill battle to convince the public his response to the war in Iran is the right one.
Sir Keir Starmer has announced four extra Typhoon jets are being sent to join the squadron in Qatar, while helicopters with anti-drone capabilities will shortly arrive in Cyprus and the HMS Dragon is being deployed to the Mediterranean. The move follows a strike from an Iranian-made drone at the UK’s Akrotiri air base in Cyprus.
But Starmer is still being accused of having “completely misjudged” the need to put defences into Cyprus, UK Correspondent Grey told Ryan Bridge.
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