Melanie Ward
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The Prime Minister
I thank the hon. Lady for raising that point. I assure her and her constituents that all necessary measures are being taken to keep her constituents safe in relation to the use of the base in her constituency; that is a first-order priority for us, and that is what we are doing.
Melanie Ward (Cowdenbeath and Kirkcaldy) (Lab)
The Prime Minister is right to be clear that UK military action has to be in line with international law, and that we were not involved in the offensive action of Israel and the US. He is also right to act to protect British lives and British interests in the face of Iranian attacks. In rightly drawing lessons from Iraq, does the Prime Minister agree that a failed state in Iran is not in the interests of the UK, nor in the interests of the wider middle east?
The Prime Minister
We have to learn the lessons. Collapsing and failed states have historically proved to be worse, so we do have to be careful.