{"id":451478,"date":"2026-03-01T05:37:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451478\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T05:37:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T05:37:07","slug":"keir-starmer-has-confirmed-british-planes-are-in-the-sky-following-us-and-israeli-strikes-on-iran-he-said-the-united-kingdom-played-no-role-in-these-strikes-but-we-have-long-been-clear-the-regi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451478\/","title":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer has confirmed British planes are &#8216;in the sky&#8217; following US and Israeli strikes on Iran. He said: &#8220;The United Kingdom played no role in these strikes, but we have long been clear: the regime in Iran is utterly abhorrent&#8221; and added that Iran and &#8216;end this now&#8217;. The Prime Minister said British planes were in the sky as &#8216;part of co-ordinated regional defensive operations&#8217; #news #keirstarmer #iran #middleeast #manchestereveningnews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer has confirmed British planes are &#8216;in the sky&#8217; following US and Israeli strikes on Iran. <\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;The United Kingdom played no role in these strikes, but we have long been clear: the regime in Iran is utterly abhorrent&#8221; and added that Iran and &#8216;end this now&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister said British planes were in the sky as &#8216;part of co-ordinated regional defensive operations&#8217; <\/p>\n<p>#news #keirstarmer #iran #middleeast #manchestereveningnews | Manchester Evening News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Keir Starmer has confirmed British planes are &#8216;in the sky&#8217; following US and Israeli strikes on Iran. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451479,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-451478","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-great-britain","10":"tag-greatbritain","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=451478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451478\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}