Link: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c20l1v0ldqzo

Do you believe him? "Defensive positions". My arsehole.

Given that we wouldn't let the US launch attacks from UK bases I'm inclined this to be true. It doesn't make much sense to refuse an attack from our soil but then go and do it ourselves anyway.

The way I'm reading it is that we're defending UK assets and allies in the area. As long as we're not defending Israel then I think that's an ok position. They can absolutely go fuck themselves. It would be categorically unacceptable if we were involved in aiding the attacks in any way though. I think Labour have too much to loose if it turned out Starmer was lying about this.

The way I’m reading it is that we’re defending UK assets and allies in the area.

This is exactly correct. However, it's also true that if any of our planes happen to gather any useful intelligence, that will almost certainly get passed on to the US and Israel because we have intelligence sharing arrangements with them. So, from that point of view, the UK will de facto be assisting them.

Those assets that was always there to support Israel