Healey says UK bases vulnerable to ‘indiscriminate’ assaults by Iranprinted at 10:16 GMT
That’s all from this week’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, here is a fast reminder of what we heard:
UK Defence Secretary John Healey stated UK bases within the Middle East had been vulnerable to “increasingly indiscriminate” assaults by Iran.
He stated 300 British personnel had been close by when a UK army base in Bahrain was struck by Iran. Some had been “within several hundred yards of the strike”, he added.
Shadow overseas secretary Priti Patel stated she “absolutely” welcomed the actions of the US and Israel in Iran, however questioned why Prime Minister Keir Starmer wasn’t extra “proactive” within the run-up to the US and Israeli strikes. She requested why UK army bases within the area weren’t used.
Green Party chief Zack Polanski urged the PM to sentence the US-Israeli strikes on Iran. He accused Keir Starmer of being “singularly incapable of standing up to Donald Trump”.
That brings our reside protection to a detailed, we’ll be again subsequent week for extra from Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.
