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Keir Starmer’s cowardice amid Iran war shames Britain — and insults the US

LONDON — Never in the field of human conflict has a British prime minister done so much to look as small as Keir Starmer does now.

This Labour government is an embarrassment to the British people and an insult to our American cousins.

“The United Kingdom played no role in these strikes,” Starmer said hours after America and Israel took out Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his gang of terrorist thugs.

The PM then admitted Iran has “backed more than 20 potentially lethal attacks on UK soil” in the last year alone.

What kind of leader does nothing when a rogue state that massacres and tortures its own people tries to do the same to his people? A coward and a fool.

British politicians pride themselves on having a Special Relationship with America, but a friend like this is little more than an enemy without the guts to say it.

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A human-rights lawyer by training and a preachy prig by vocation, Starmer specializes in the kind of political language that George Orwell said was “designed to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.”

Starmer is a Hindenburg of hot air. His high-minded cant about international law is cover for the lowest forms of political calculation.

Starmer implies that American action against Iran is illegal under international law.

He means stopping a nuclear Iran is a problem for a prime minister whose........

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