Farage U-Turns to Say UK Shouldn’t Get Involved in Iran War

Leader of Reform UK Nigel Farage

Photographer: Jason Alden/Bloomberg

Nigel Farage reversed his position on the UK’s involvement in the Iran war on Tuesday, saying Britain should not get involved in the conflict.

Speaking in a publicity stunt at a gas station in Derbyshire, central England, during which he subsidized the fuel of motorists as he announced his party’s plan to cut fuel duty, the Reform UK leader said much of the world was losing respect for the UK because of Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s tentative response to the conflict. But he also suggested that he would not have acted much differently.