Against israel, despite allies pleads for de escalation. How critical a moment is this in an already chaotic world . The white house has described irans attack on israel over the weekend as a spectacular and embarrassing failure. Nearly all of the more than 300 missiles and drones fired by iran and its allies in the region were shot down. The us also says iran did not issue warnings to the white house about its timeframe for launching an attack. Tonight, israels Military Chief again said irans actions will be met with a response. Here, the Prime Minister told mps he is working urgently with the uks allies to de escalate tensions in the middle east, to prevent further bloodshed. In a moment, well have the latest from jerusalem and our International Editorjeremy bowen will be here. But first, lets go live to westminster and to our deputy political editor, vicki young. And we heard more from rishi sunak about the raf s role in defending israel . Thats right. After those dramatic scenes on
needs to be explained. we are expecting rishi sunak to give a statement in the house of commons on monday as keir starmer mentioned. the other opposition parties, the snp, lib dems, plaid cymru, all saying parliament should be recalled over the weekend to discuss this. the house of commons speaker sir lindsay hoyle said he would be happy to arrange that. it appears unlikely at this stage. it also appears unlikely that they would be a retrospective vote next week on whether this action should have taken place or not. the question is whether the uk does any more attacks, and if they were to do so, there would be quite significant political pressure to hold a vote in the house of commons. political pressure to hold a vote in the house of commons. peter, thank ou. some the house of commons. peter, thank you- some new the house of commons. peter, thank you. some new lines the house of commons. peter, thank you. some new lines that the house of commons. peter, thank you. some new line
this. the labour party, though, their leader keir starmer has been on the airwaves saying they support this action. there may be labour mps who disagree, there may be conservative mps too. no doubt the prime minister will give a statement next week, but in a way, it has already happened. the air strikes have taken place. if there were to be more, it would be difficult for the british government to row back at this stage. the liberal democrats believe there should be a retrospective vote on military action in the red sea. a lot of people in westminster are just digesting what happened last night, because it all came very quickly. some of the opposition parties will still be formulating their responses, frankly. but the prime minister will be aware that whenever you take military action overseas, it is going to be controversial and it is going to be controversial and it is going to be controversial and it is going to come in for criticism. criticism. our political correspondent - critic
that parliament should be consulted on this. the labour party, though, their leader keir starmer has been on the airwaves saying they support this action. there may be labour mps who disagree, there may be conservative mps too. no doubt the prime minister will give a statement next week, but in a way, it has already happened. the air strikes have taken place. if there were to be more, it would be difficult for the british government to row back at this stage. the liberal democrats believe there should be a retrospective vote on military action in the red sea. a lot of people in westminster are just digesting what happened last night, because it all came very quickly. some of the opposition parties will still be formulating their responses, frankly. but the prime minister will be aware that whenever you take military action overseas, it is going to be controversial and it is going to come in for criticism.
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