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Guido Fawkes2 Mar 2026

Cooper: UK Still Won’t be ‘Directly Involved’ in Defensive Strikes After Starmer U-Turn

Yvette Cooper is playing down the UK’s involvement in ongoing US action against Iran despite Starmer’s U-turn last night. The RAF base on Cyprus was hit at around 10 p.m. at the same time as Starmer’s statement… The Foreign Secretary told BBC Breakfast: “It’s important to say the UK is not going to be involved…

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The Guardian Politics2 Mar 2026

RAF airbase in Cyprus hit as Cooper defends decision to allow US to use UK bases for Iran strikes – UK politics live

Foreign secretary confirms strike on Akrotiri base but says it ‘simply not true’ the UK is being dragged into an Iraq-style conflict ‘Simply not true’ UK is being dragged into Iraq-style conflict, says foreign secretary Good morning and welcome to today’s live coverage. Just hours after Keir Starmer said that the UK has allowed the US use British military bases to attack Iranian missile sites, the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus was hit by a suspected drone strike. Continue reading...

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The Guardian Politics2 Mar 2026

UK RAF airbase in Cyprus hit by drone strike

Officials believe drone was launched before PM agreed to let US use British military bases to attack Iran missile sites US-Israel war on Iran – live updates A one-way attack drone has struck the UK’s RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus, prompting a partial evacuation of the base. Officials believe the drone, which hit at about midnight local time, was launched before Keir Starmer announced the UK would allow the US to use its airbases to bomb Iranian missile sites, but it had not yet been publicly det

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Conservative Home2 Mar 2026

Newslinks for Monday 2nd March 2026

RAF base in Cyrpus hit by drone strike after Starmer U-turn on military bases | Channel migrant crossings hit record levels this year as authorities struggle to cope with surge | Labour’s employment shake-up ‘makes Britain worse than France’ The post Newslinks for Monday 2nd March 2026 appeared first on Conservative Home.

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The Guardian Politics2 Mar 2026

Labour council accuses minister of ‘moral bankruptcy’ over social care dispute

Hartlepool leaders ‘furious and appalled’ after meeting with Steve Reed about growing cost of social care The housing, communities and local government secretary has been accused by a Labour council of showing “arrogance, indifference and moral bankruptcy” towards children in social care. In an unusually forthright attack, Labour leaders of Hartlepool council said they were “furious and appalled” at Steve Reed after a meeting with him last week. A cross-party delegation had asked the secretary o

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The Guardian Politics2 Mar 2026

‘Simply not true’ UK is being dragged into Iraq-style conflict, says foreign secretary

Yvette Cooper says plans under consideration to evacuate about 300,000 Britons from Middle East amid Iran war US-Israel war on Iran – live updates It is “simply not true” that the UK is being dragged into another Iraq-style conflict in the Middle East, Yvette Cooper has said, after an RAF base in Cyprus was struck by an Iranian drone. The attack was part of a barrage of strikes by Tehran around the Middle East following a US-Israeli attack on Saturday that killed the country’s supreme leader,

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Express Politics2 Mar 2026

More than 100,000 Brits sign up to flee war-torn middle east

The Foreign Secretary said more than 100,000 Britons had now registered their presence in the Middle East.

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Express Politics2 Mar 2026

Labour is waging war on rural Britain while pretending to understand the countryside

OPINION - AARON NEWBURY: Labour is running roughshod over rural Britain with farm taxes and hunting bans while city politicians pose in Barbour jackets.

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BBC Politics2 Mar 2026

RAF base in Cyprus targeted in suspected drone strike, MoD says

The BBC understands there were no casualties in the suspected strike on RAF Akrotiri in southern Cyprus.

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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

UK to allow US to use British bases for defensive strikes against Iran

Keir Starmer says decision is due to Iran’s approach becoming more reckless and putting British lives at risk The UK has agreed to let the US use British military bases to attack Iranian missile sites, Keir Starmer has said. The UK has so far not been involved in the US-Israeli strikes on Iran, but in a recorded statement on Sunday evening, the prime minister said that Iran’s approach was becoming more reckless and putting British lives at risk, leading to the decision to allow the US to use UK

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The Guardian Politics1 Mar 2026

‘That resentment is real’: Mahmood’s Denmark visit aims to hammer home tough line on immigration

On tour of returns centre, home secretary says ‘legitimate grievances’ have to be acknowledged as part of ‘responsible’ politics Refugee status to be temporary as Shabana Mahmood rips up rules on UK asylum The UK home secretary, Shabana Mahmood, and Danish immigration officials strode through the bleak and chilly Sjælsmark returns centre, a former military barracks used to house men and women who have no right to remain in the country. Followed by photographers, reporters and civil servants, M

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BBC Politics1 Mar 2026

UK troops and civilians in Middle East put at risk by Iran strikes, Healey says

British military personnel at a base in Bahrain were "within several hundred yards" of a strike, the defence secretary says.

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