UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said he is not going to yield to pressure from the US president to join the conflict in Iran.
It comes after Donald Trump told Sky News that when the US asked the UK for help they were not there. He also suggested the trade deal with the UK can always be changed.
Sir Keir told the Commons: I'm not going to change my mind, I'm not going to yield, it is not in our national interest to join this war and we will not do so. Trump has persistently criticised the prime minister after he refused to join offensive measures in the US-Israel war against Iran when it began in late February.
Responding to a question from Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey about Trump's latest comments, Sir Keir told Prime Minister's Questions: My position on Iran has been clear from the start, we're not going to get dragged into this war.
It is not our war, a lot of pressure has been applied to me to take a different course and that pressure included what happened last night.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves had already expressed frustration at what she called Trump's folly in starting the war without a clear exit plan.
Reeves told The Mirror on Tuesday: This is a war that we did not start. It was a war that we did not want. I feel very frustrated and angry that the US went into this war without a clear exit plan, without a clear idea of what they were trying to achieve.
Earlier in the interview, Trump was asked how he would describe the special relationship between the US and the UK. He said: It's the relationship where when we asked them for help, they were not there. When we didn't need them, they were not there. And they still aren't there.
Pressed further on the relationship, Trump said it had been better, but it's sad.
