Latest Breaking News

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/ce84073mr06t

What has changed with the UK's latest announcement on the US using its bases

Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent

Let’s be clear this is a broadening of the terms under which the US military is allowed to use UK bases in actions against Iran.

From the first weekend of the war the UK agreed to let the US use British bases for "specific and limited defensive action against missile facilities in Iran which were involved in launching strikes at regional allies".

Now the US can use those bases, in Gloucestershire and the Indian Ocean, to target Iranian missile and other sites being used to attack shipping in the Strait of Hormuz.

But let’s also be clear, this does not mean UK forces themselves are going to be involved in striking targets in Iran.
(snip)