Too little, too late.

 The prime minister has got himself in a terrible pickle over - whether or not to support the American attack on Iran. According to Tim Shipman in The Spectator magazine, he was bullied by his cabinet colleagues in the National Security Council (NSC). Ed Miliband, Rachel Reeves and Yvette Cooper, didn’t want to support the US and moreover - not to allow our bases in this country to be used by American aircraft. In addition countries in the Gulf region are incandescent, that we have been ‘asleep at the wheel’ and ill prepared for battle. We therefore have managed to infuriate Trump and let down important allies and as a consequence have caused unnecessary damage to these important relationships. It’s a lack of political nouse that bedevils Starmer - he is naive, gullible and an ingenu. The bogeyman in the background is the attorney general Lord  Hermer - who is pedantic and something of a bete noire. He is a close legal friend of the prime minister, which exacerbates the crisis.