Downing Street Rejects Trump's Claim UK Offered To Send Aircraft Carriers To Gulf

Keir Starmer and Donald Trump are at loggerheads over the war in Iran.

Downing Street has rejected Donald Trump’s latest claims about the UK’s involvement in the Iran war.

The US president said Keir Starmer had initially rejected his request for the Royal Navy to send two aircraft carriers to the region.

Trump said the prime minister later changed his mind, but he rebuffed him.

He said: “We requested two aircraft carriers which they had. And he didn’t want to do it.

“Then right after the war essentially ended...