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Defence Secretary John Healey said the UK should be judged on its actions in the Middle East rather than Donald Trump’s social media posts.Speaking at the London Defence Conference at King's College, Mr Healey acknowledged the US president’s anger over the UK’s refusal to grant him free rein to launch strikes against Iran from British bases.

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00:02If you look in that UK-US relationship, in the end, you know, I'd rather our actions spoke for themselves.
00:14And if you look even in this current conflict, the basing permissions that we in the UK have agreed with
00:25the US
00:25have been invaluable to their military operation.
00:28In northern Iraq, you know, our RAF regiment has been almost daily taking down drones and jointly protecting US forces
00:37and that joint base we've got with them.
00:40You know, if we focus on our actions rather than just simply the exchange of words and social media posts,
00:50then the fundamentals for me remain.
00:53The fundamentals for me remain that America is absolutely locked into with benefits as well as massive contributions to NATO.
01:03We have to do more.
01:04We are and we will on the European side.
01:07We are and we are gingers overnight.
01:08We are
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