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Donald Trump has suggested that Sir Keir Starmer is pandering to the UK’s Muslim voters as tensions between London and Washington escalate over Iran.

At the weekend, the US president criticised the Prime Minister’s refusal to support the joint US-Israeli strikes on the Iranian regime. He said the special relationship was “obviously not what it was”.

Mr Trump launched a fresh broadside at the Prime Minister after telling The Telegraph that he was “very disappointed” in Sir Keir for not supporting the strikes.

Comparing him unfavourably with Emmanuel Macron, the French president, he said: “He has not been helpful. I never thought I’d see that from the UK.”

Mr Trump was asked on Tuesday whether Sir Keir had been slow to respond to America’s requests for help because he was pandering to the Muslim vote.

The president said: “It could be. He should have helped. I mean, France has been great. They’ve all been great. The UK has been much different from the others.

“It’s a different world, actually. It’s just a much different kind of relationship that we’ve had with your country before. It’s very sad to see that the relationship is obviously not what it was.”

Mr Trump was responding after Sir Keir accused him of taking military action in the Middle East that was not “thought through”.

PLUS:
Rachel Reeves has updated MPs on her economic plans, in a low-key statement that did not contain any major tax or spending measures.

It comes as the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) - which monitors the public finances – unveiled its latest forecasts for the UK economy, external.

Reeves conceded, however, that war in the Middle East meant the economic outlook has "become yet more uncertain".

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Mosques across Australia have paid tribute to Iran's Supreme Leader overnight, with some preachers calling his death 'an inspiration' and urging followers to not lose sight of their 'fight.'

Vigils have been held at mosques in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane following the death of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in his compound by a US-Israel airstrike on February 28.

Khamenei, who ruled Iran as its supreme leader for over three decades, is responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, through a campaign of state-sponsored terrorism against his own people and abroad.

He came to ultimate power in 1989 and was made commander-in chief of the Iranian armed forces and its 'axis of resistance' - an anti-Western alliance made up of terrorist groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas, Shia militias in Iraq and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Khamenei also crushed those who opposed his reign internally, with more than 30,000 protestors killed by security forces on his orders in January alone - – the largest death toll in modern Iranian history.

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