SHADOW Home Secretary Chris Philp has accused the Prime Minister of choosing to support the Iranian regime rather than back the USA in the current conflict.

He told GB News: “It’s very damaging for the United Kingdom. Once again, Keir Starmer has revealed himself to be a weak lawyer and not a leader, more interested in Lord Hermer and the Attorney General’s very expansive views of international law, instead of standing up for our national interest, instead of supporting our longtime, long-term ally, the United States of America, and failing to take a stand against Iran, a murderous regime that has slaughtered 30,000 of its own people in just the last couple of weeks, has sponsored terrorism around the world, including supported sporting Hamas to slaughter 1,200 innocent Israeli people murdered, raped and kidnapped and even sponsored terrorist acts on our own soil, here in the UK.

“And of course, the Iranian regime was also trying to get itself a nuclear weapon. And instead of standing up against that, instead of supporting the Americans, as our Australian and Canadian Allies did, instead of supporting America, Keir Starmer just sat back and refused to let them use British military bases.

“He seemed to think somehow that actually supporting the Iranian regime was more important than supporting America.

“That was a disgraceful decision by Keir Starmer. It was weak, and it goes to show that he is no leader at all when it comes to standing up strongly for Britain’s national interest on the international stage and standing up strongly against terrorist regimes like Iran.

“Keir Starmer got this once again, very badly wrong, because he is a weak lawyer, not a leader.”

Asked if the IRGC should be proscribed, he said: “Yes, it does. In my view, we should definitely proscribe, that is to say, ban the IRGC, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, which is a band of murderous thugs who essentially control Iran on behalf of the ayatollahs, but they also export terrorism around the world.

“They’re the ones who support terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah, and they have also sponsored repression here on our own soil, in the UK and terrorist plots, as you said a second ago.

“I’m very concerned about the wider security threat that Iran poses in the region and also here in the UK.

“If Iran ever got a nuclear weapon that would be a disaster for global security, because they’re a rogue state. They’ve attacked shipping in the Straits of Hormuz, which is a critical shipping lane that takes oil out of the Gulf around the wider world.

“In fact, they’re claiming they’ve shut it down even as we speak, but they’ve attacked shipping there before as well. So there’s no doubt, in my mind, Iran poses an enormous threat to their own people, who they’ve been murdering recently in the thousands.

“They pose a threat to the region, and they pose a threat to the wider world as well. And that is why, I think in those circumstances that the action the Americans took was justified.”