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There's only thing worse for Keir Starmer than being in the know on American plans to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities: not being in the know.
Knowing it was about to happen would have caused the Labour leader all manner of problems with his backbenchers — especially as he would likely have found out by the US asking for permission to use a UK base to launch the attack from.
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