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Green Party leader Zack Polanski has condemned Sir Keir Starmer's decision to allow US forces to operate from British bases against Iran. The Prime Minister's announcement came just hours before a drone hit the RAF Akrotiri base in Cyprus.Mr Polanski said that Sir Keir is "incapable of standing up to Donald Trump".
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00:06Dragging the UK into another illegal war does not make us any more safe.
00:12And polling shows over and over again that the majority of people in this country
00:15do not want our UK bases to be used by US military.
00:19And the only reason why this is happening is Keir Starmer is incapable of standing up for Donald Trump.
00:25It's really important that there's a vote in the House of Commons
00:28and also we immediately withdraw permission for the US to use UK bases.
00:33We need to think about our own national security keeping people in this country safe.
00:37And Keir Starmer being totally subservient, Donald Trump, doesn't do that.
00:41Do you have a response or something to say about the IRF in Cyprus getting heard by drones?
00:48It's deeply worrying that this whole conflict is escalating very very quickly
00:52and so it really requires cool heads, de-escalation and diplomacy.
00:56But again those are not qualities that Donald Trump generally has.
01:00It's really important that we show leadership on this by making sure that we're talking down this conflict,
01:05de-escalating it and getting people back to a negotiating table.
01:09But to start that we need to have a vote in the House of Commons.
01:11We need to remove immediately permission for US bases to be using the UK military.
01:16And that's why they're walking across the country.
01:16I'm doing this any more than that…
01:17I'm doing this even more than the whole country.
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