Trump attacks weak Starmer over Iran dither and delay
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🗓️ 2 March 2026
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Donald Trump has told The Telegraph that he is “very disappointed” in Sir Keir Starmer, after the Government initially refused the US permission to use UK bases to stage an operation that killed Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
After the PM belatedly gave Trump the go-ahead, Camilla and Tim speak to former chief of MI6 Sir Richard Dearlove, who bemoans Starmer’s “flip-flopping” on the issue.
While he does not think Iran presents an “imminent nuclear threat”, Sir Richard does believe the Prime Minister forfeited the right to be consulted ahead of time about the joint US-Israeli operation when he took his position. He also believes Mr Trump’s aim may be for Iran to be run by a “more compliant” group of Ayatollahs, rather than complete regime change.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | The Middle East is close to all-out war as the US and Israel take out of Rands Ayatollah. |
| 0:15.0 | As always with Kirstama, the UK is a laughing stock, |
| 0:19.0 | with Donald Trump exclusively telling the Daily Telegraph |
| 0:21.9 | that he is disappointed that he wasn't allowed to use UK bases. |
| 0:26.0 | We'll be joined by the former head of MI6, Sir Richard's dear love, who accuses the Prime Minister |
| 0:31.0 | of being indecisive. |
| 0:33.2 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley. |
| 0:35.4 | And me, Camilla Tominy. |
| 0:46.6 | Thank you. Welcome to The Daily Tea with me Tim Stanley. And me, Camilla Tominy. Tim, I know you're going to start channeling your inner Jeremy Corbyn, and we will have that row a little later. |
| 0:51.6 | I'm going to assume the role of Dick Cheney. |
| 0:53.7 | So I'm going to be Trump. You're going to be Starmer. We'll do that a little later because this whole bombing raid has worried you. It's worried the CND supporting student in you. Well, it's really worried the Ayatollah as well. Yes, who's now dead. He appears to have been killed in the very first wave of strikes. Speaking to the Daily Telegraph, Donald Trump said that he had thought that the campaign would take up to four weeks, but instead he seems to have removed much of Iran's leadership on the very first day. You do question the wisdom, don't you, of the Ayatollah and his top team, all meeting in the same compound at the same time. I only say that. It's a little bit like members of the royal family all flying |
| 1:31.4 | together. Donald Trump did give us some forewarning of all this. We did have the 12-day war in June. |
| 1:37.2 | We did have a key nuclear facility wiped out. We did have him saying to the Iranian people, |
| 1:42.0 | don't worry, help is at hand. |
| 1:46.0 | I will come and support you. |
| 1:47.5 | So it's interesting. |
| 1:51.4 | Richard Dearlob, the former head of MI6, is going to be coming on the Daily Tear a little later. |
| 1:57.8 | And he can take us inside the situation room because how on earth do coordinate that kind of strike that's so effective? |
| 2:00.7 | Also, let's just mark the historic moment. |
| 2:01.9 | It was quite astonishing. |
| 2:08.5 | I was planning my G.B. News show, and one of my producers posted Ayatollah dead, which I kind of overlooked, and I was looking at the positioning of another guest on the show, and then I kind of |
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