UK Green Leader Says Starmer Not Being “Truthful” About Iran War
Speaking at the Green Party's local election campaign launch in London, Polanski branded Israel's continued access to international diplomatic and trade networks as "outrageous," and outlined a series of demands he said the government had a moral obligation to act on — including tougher sanctions, a full withdrawal from the UK-Israel trade agreement, and what he described as an urgent need to "end the genocide."
The Green leader reserved particular fire for Prime Minister Keir Starmer, questioning the government's public account of Britain's military footprint in the conflict.
"The prime minister is not being entirely truthful with the country," Polanski said. "He keeps saying we are not involved in this war, but we still have UK soil and bases where US bombers are flying to Iran."
Polanski broadened his critique to encompass Britain's entanglement in tensions across Lebanon and Iran, calling for a decisive institutional separation between British and American military operations — including a prohibition on US forces using British airspace.
"What we need to do is disentangle the UK military from the US military," he said. "This war is not in our name, and we want nothing to do with it."
He pointed to certain European allies as models for how Britain could responsibly distance itself from the widening conflict.
The remarks come against a volatile regional backdrop. The US and Israel launched a joint military offensive against Iran on Feb. 28, prompting Tehran to retaliate with waves of drone and missile strikes targeting Israel, Jordan, Iraq, and Gulf states hosting American military assets. Iran also moved to restrict shipping through the Strait of Hormuz — a chokepoint it has since agreed to reopen under the terms of a ceasefire deal.
On Tuesday, former President Donald Trump announced he had agreed "to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks" — a temporary pause that has done little to quiet the political storm now building in London.
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