Starmer can call this “defensive” all he likes, but once the state is moving families off a UK base within hours, the consequences have already started. Right, so Keir Starmer has said yes to Donald Trump on Iran, and within twenty-four hours a British base has taken a hit. He gives the United States permission to use UK bases to strike Iranian missiles “at source”, he calls it “defensive”, he puts out a legal summary to wrap it up in a ribbon, and then the Sovereign Base Areas Administration has confirmed a suspected drone impact at RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus and at time of writing sirens are going off and people are being urged to head for shelters. Families get moved. Non-essential people get dispersed. Cyprus’s president, Nikos Christodoulides, goes on record saying his country is not taking part in any military operation. British sovereign terri ...