Once you've started a war... it's hard to end

IT’S all very well knocking over a dictator, or toppling a regime which doesn't fit with Western values, but it's what happens the day after which counts.

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It is a lesson which the US should already know, if regime change was the intended goal of their sudden — and illegal - war on Iran.

Possibly emboldened by how easy Venezuela was toppled, Donald Trump launched strikes on Iranian assets, killing their Ayatollah, but is now finding out that without a plan, a war is not an easy thing to extricate yourself from.

So I, for one, am pleased that our own Prime Minister was not falling into line with the US when it came to joining the pile-on.

Keir Starmer's shifting stance on Iran may not have won him as many friends, internationally, as it did with Spain’s leader Pedro Sanchez, but it was more nuanced - he left the door open for defending British assets without openly joining in on strikes which were at best unjustified and at worst a war crime (as a girls school was hit).