Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

and this is the Sunday Roundup. Is the UK already too implicated in an illegal war? Or does

Kirstarmer's cautious indecision represent a dereliction of duty to help our

greatest ally? This week we hear contrasting points of view as the conflict in the Middle East rages on.

In the last few days, Kirstama has agreed to let the US military use UK bases to conduct specific

defensive actions and the aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales,

has been prepped to set sail from Portsmouth. Nevertheless, President Trump has been scathing

about Kirstama. On Sky News, Trevor Phillips asked Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper how Stama would react

to the president's latest barrage of social media posts.

The president said of Kier Stama, this is not Winston Churchill we're dealing with.

He called the Prime Minister a loser.

And last night he said, we don't need people joining wars after we've already won.

Now, will the Prime Minister just shrug his shoulders at these remarks,

which some people might say are as much an insult to the nation as they are to him personally?

Well, the thing I've learnt doing this job is that you have to focus on substance

and not on social media posts.

And that's the important way to do this.

Yeah, it's not anybody's social media's post.

It's not some bloke in a basement who are writing 100, whatever it is,

240 characters.

This is the president of the United States.

He says, our prime Minister is a loser.

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