Four extra British Typhoon fighter jets are being deployed to Qatar amid the conflict in the Middle East, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said.
Speaking at a press conference in Downing Street, the prime minister also announced that a government-chartered flight from Oman to Britain has now taken off, after it was delayed from doing so overnight.
Starmer revealed he had chaired a Cobra meeting on Thursday, and acknowledged that people across the UK were ‘worried sick about their family and friends who are caught up in this’.
He added: ‘I want to reassure the British public about the action that we are taking while the region has been plunged into chaos.
‘My focus is providing calm, level-headed leadership in the national interest.’
By Sophie Wingate, David Lynch, Nina Lloyd, George Thompson and Harry Taylor, Press Association Political Staff
Press Association: News
source: PA
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