Nigel Farage accusato di inversione di marcia poiché afferma che il Regno Unito dovrebbe tenersi fuori dalla guerra con l’Iran

Nigel Farage has been accused of making a U-turn after he said Britain should not get involved in Donald Trump’s war with Iran.

His comments on Tuesday contrasted with his previous assertion that the “gloves need to come off” when dealing with Iran.

Anna Turley, chair of the Labour party, said: “Reform wanted the UK to go to war in Iran and are now trying to cover up the consequences for British families, including higher fuel prices.”
While Farage has insisted he does not heed public opinion, a YouGov poll showed Reform’s 2024 voters are split, with nearly a quarter (24%) wanting the UK to actively join the attack on Iran and 63% supporting either a retaliatory or defensive position.

The conflict has exposed existing fault lines among senior Reform figures over foreign policy and the extent to which the UK should take a more isolationist “Britain First” position – an echo of splits in Trump’s own conservative base in the US. Here is what key figures have said.

**Nigel Farage**
On Tuesday, Farage said: “There are differing opinions as to whether we should physically join the attacks. I, as leader, am saying to you, if we can’t even defend Cyprus, let’s not get ourselves involved in another foreign war.”
This contrasts with his first public comments after the start of the war, when he said that he was in favour of “regime change” in Iran and told a press conference in Westminster: “We should do all we can to support the operation.”

**Richard Tice**
Reform’s deputy leader has taken a gung-ho stance from the start. In recent years, he has split his time between his Lincolnshire constituency and Dubai, where his partner lives.
“We would be helping the Americans and the Israelis in any way they saw appropriate because this is a strategic, permanent threat to all of our safety and interest,” he has said. “If requests were made, we would have been saying: ‘Yes, we are pleased to help.’”

**Robert Jenrick**
The former Conservative minister and Reform Treasury spokesperson laid out an explicitly “hands off” position on Monday. Writing in the Telegraph, he said a prolonged conflict would send prices spiralling and hurt British consumers.
“We are a party for working people, not drawn-out wars in faraway places,” wrote Jenrick, lambasting “the liberal interventionists of the early 21st century. The British people have had enough of them. It’s time to be realists and put Britain first.”

**Andrea Jenkyns**
The mayor of Greater Lincolnshire, who holds Reform’s most powerful public post, went as far as floating the prospect that she could support British troops on the ground in Iran.
“Do I want to see British troops on the ground? Ideally not at this stage,” she said, when asked on Sky News on Monday. “You can’t rule anything out. It’s too hostile. We don’t know the direction it is going to go in. Should we be using more of our weapons? Most certainly.”

**Nadhim Zahawi**
The recently recruited Reform member and former Conservative chancellor told the Sun last month that Britain should support and join the US and Israel’s bombing of Iran.
On Sunday, he told Times Radio that the UK should at least have made its bases available to the US from the start for offensive and “make everything available to our greatest ally, the United States of America”.

Zahawi, who was born into a Kurdish-Iraqi family which fled Saddam Hussein, said Iran had to stay “coherent as a nation”, but he recognised that the US was determined to create an environment for the Iranian people “to rise up again”.

It doesn’t matter which side of the argument he’s on. We shouldn’t be paying attention to anything this cunt is saying

He’s sulking because he flew all the way to Mar-a-Lago and his orange crush [wouldn’t see him](https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/politics/nigel-farage-mar-a-lago-visit-donald-trump-chagos-islands-403835/). “Meh! Didn’t want to be part of your stupid war anyway.”

It’s still a win. I want us to keep out of this war. This is trump’s folly

He’s a populist opportunist with no actual policies, no principles, or answers to anything. He’ll say whatever he thinks will convince enough morons to vote for him. So of course he’ll change his tune to whatever way the wind is blowing.

LOL So the obnoxious twat Farage, shouts his predictable opposition to Starmer to win some pundits,.goes off to the USA yesterday to see Trump – who refuses to see him.
Comes back to a news cycle which shows the UK in general across the board are supportive of Starmers position and so U turns like the little opportunistic weasel he is

He’s been given his orders from uncle Vlad then, trump also changed his tune after speaking to the mother land yesterday.

So are the reform tards going to change their copy/paste rhetoric about Starmer? Given now Nigel has done a rather dramatic U turn.

I’ve never seen anyone who hates this country more than him and his ilk. Any excuse to shit on the country he seems to take it. Why doesn’t he just leave if he hates it here so much?

This man u-turns on policy more than Starmer, and he doesn’t even have to implement them!