"According to new polling conducted by the organisation More in Common, 74% of UK voters now say that British forces should either have no involvement in the war, or that they should merely respond defensively to it – exactly the position taken by Starmer.And while the British press has sought to attack and belittle the Prime Minister for putting himself on the wrong side of Trump, the polling finds that most UK voters actually want him to stand up to the President.According to the same poll 55% of British voters want Keir Starmer to prioritise “standing up to Trump”, compared to just 27% who say he should prioritise working alongside him.The result of this wave of public opposition to Trump and his war is that it for the first time in a long time it is Starmer’s opponents who have had to back down, rather than him.In the last 24 hours both Farage and Badenoch have U-turned on their previous support for Britain joining Trump’s war, with both even daring to suggest that they had never really backed joining it in the first place."https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/10/nigel-farages-humiliating-iran-u-turn-should-be-a-lesson-for-keir-starmer/#:~:text=In%20the%20last%2024%20hours,it%20in%20the%20first%20place.
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