Britain has scrapped contingency plans to send the aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales to the Middle East following Donald Trump’s mocking of Sir Keir Starmer for supposedly wanting to join the war with Iran after it had already been “won”.
British officials said that the carrier, currently in Portsmouth, was not being prepared for Iran-related activity and Downing Street said there was “no decision to deploy her”.
The news came after the Ministry of Defence put the ship and its crew in a state of high readiness to set sail within five days, a move confirmed in a statement on Saturday in relation to Britain’s military build-up in the Middle East.
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