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For the best part of 48 hours, first the defence secretary and then the foreign secretary were struggling to cogently articulate in public what the government made of the US and Israel’s attacks on Iran and why.

Trump’s statement came after the U.K. Ministry of Defense said that one of the country’s two aircraft carriers had been placed on advanced readiness for a possible mobilization to the Middle East, according to a report.

The memory of the Iraq war was referred to repeatedly across the chamber, including by the Prime Minister.

A conflict that happened more than a decade before he became an MP and more than two decades before he arrived in Downing Street was key to the case he made for his outlook now.