It is not just Donald Trump who believes Keir Starmer has failed to channel Winston Churchill. Now Cyprus have given the Prime Minister’s leadership a tongue-lashing.

Kyriacos Kouros, the country’s high commissioner to the UK, has drawn unfavourable comparisons between the responses of France and Britain to Iran’s drone attack on the RAF base on Cyprus. ‘The French are coming,’ said Kouros. ‘The least we expect is the Britons to also be present since, as I said, we are not only defending Cypriots on the islands.’

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According to the Times, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates are also less than impressed with Britain’s conduct in the Middle East since Israel and the US launched Saturday’s attack on Iran. Their main beef is Britain’s delay in allowing American aircraft to use their joint bases to conduct strikes against Iranian targets. On Thursday, France announced that some of its airbases in the Middle East were temporarily hosting American aircraft ‘as part of our relationship with the United States’. A French........

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