The Starmer government provided aerial refueling for U.S. jets during airstrikes on Yemen last weekend that killed 53 people, including women and children, Iona Craig reports.
The flights have taken off from Britain’s controversial air base on Cyprus, RAF Akrotiri, and averaged around one a day since the beginning of December, Matt Kennard reports.
The two key reasons are the need for Whitehall to demonstrate British subservience and usefulness to the US, and the power of the Israel lobby, writes Declassified’s editor Mark Curtis.