{"id":4680,"date":"2026-04-03T17:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4680"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T17:21:08","slug":"nigel-farage-admits-keir-starmer-was-right-not-to-join-iran-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/?p=4680","title":{"rendered":"Nigel Farage admits Keir Starmer was right not to join Iran war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><!--$--><\/p>\n<p><h2>Even Farage can no longer deny that the prime minister was correct.<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose drop-cap \">\n<p>Nigel Farage has finally admitted that Keir Starmer was right not to involve the UK in Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>With every passing day of Trump\u2019s disastrous and seemingly\u00a0clueless military action in Iran, Starmer\u2019s refusal to commit British troops to the conflict is vindicated ever more.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>And now, it seems that even Farage can no longer deny that the prime minister was correct in his stance.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Speaking at a press conference on Thursday \u2013 in which Reform announced they would commit to the pension triple lock if they win the next election \u2013 Farage addressed the conflict in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He started off by saying the UK had been \u201c\u201call over the place\u201d on the Middle East.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>He said: \u201cIt seems that the Prime Minister has upset the Americans. He\u2019s upset the Cypriots. He\u2019s upset much of the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>However, the Clacton MP then added: \u201cWhilst\u00a0<em>he may be right not to commit us militarily to direct involvement<\/em>, the truth is we couldn\u2019t do it anyway. We haven\u2019t got a Royal Navy.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>When asked if he thought there was a chance the US would abandon their allies in attempts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, Farage said: \u201cI wouldn\u2019t for a minute think that the Americans would walk away from that\u201d.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Meanwhile, Trump seems to have also lost the support of Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>Speaking on Thursday, she said Trump should \u201cnot be abandoning a mess that he\u2019s made.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><!--$--><\/p>\n<div class=\"custom-prose  \">\n<p>\u201cIf you break it, you own it,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><!--\/$--><\/div>\n<p>#Nigel #Farage #admits #Keir #Starmer #join #Iran #war<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even Farage can no longer deny that the prime minister was correct. Nigel Farage has finally admitted that Keir Starmer was right not to involve the UK in Donald Trump\u2019s Iran war. With every passing day of Trump\u2019s disastrous and seemingly\u00a0clueless military action in Iran, Starmer\u2019s refusal to commit British troops to the conflict is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4681,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1658,1709,613,4166,1975,897,1560,923,1708,2153,18,898,96],"class_list":{"0":"post-4680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"tag-admits","9":"tag-farage","10":"tag-iran","11":"tag-iran-war","12":"tag-join","13":"tag-keir","14":"tag-keir-starmer","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-nigel","17":"tag-nigel-farage","18":"tag-politics","19":"tag-starmer","20":"tag-war"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldpumpnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}