Reform UK leader told a ‘Save Chagos Boat Party’ yesterday he would be raising the issue in his meeting with the president

• Middle East crisis – live updates

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch this morning reinforced that she would support Royal Air Force jets striking Iranian missile launch sites.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said:

That is the right thing to do. Otherwise, we are allowing our service personnel to be put in danger. We have to think about them.

If this was a nuclear attack, God forbid, it would be too late.

You can’t always wait for people to attack you. Sometimes you have to make sure that you get there first to stop their ability to hurt your citizens.

We are in this war whether we like it or not because we have put bases in other people’s countries and we need to protect them.

And what I’m worried about is that our government looks afraid to do anything and just wants to sort of make it go away, and we need to be stronger than that.

Reform UK leader told a ‘Save Chagos Boat Party’ yesterday he would be raising the issue in his meeting with the president

• Middle East crisis – live updates

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch this morning reinforced that she would support Royal Air Force jets striking Iranian missile launch sites.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said:

That is the right thing to do. Otherwise, we are allowing our service personnel to be put in danger. We have to think about them.

If this was a nuclear attack, God forbid, it would be too late.

You can’t always wait for people to attack you. Sometimes you have to make sure that you get there first to stop their ability to hurt your citizens.

We are in this war whether we like it or not because we have put bases in other people’s countries and we need to protect them.

And what I’m worried about is that our government looks afraid to do anything and just wants to sort of make it go away, and we need to be stronger than that.

Reform UK leader told a ‘Save Chagos Boat Party’ yesterday he would be raising the issue in his meeting with the president

• Middle East crisis – live updates

Conservative party leader Kemi Badenoch this morning reinforced that she would support Royal Air Force jets striking Iranian missile launch sites.

Speaking on BBC Breakfast, she said:

That is the right thing to do. Otherwise, we are allowing our service personnel to be put in danger. We have to think about them.

If this was a nuclear attack, God forbid, it would be too late.

You can’t always wait for people to attack you. Sometimes you have to make sure that you get there first to stop their ability to hurt your citizens.

We are in this war whether we like it or not because we have put bases in other people’s countries and we need to protect them.

And what I’m worried about is that our government looks afraid to do anything and just wants to sort of make it go away, and we need to be stronger than that.