British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and U.S. President Donald Trump meet for bilateral talks at Trump Turnberry golf club in Scotland on July 28, 2025. Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
U.S. President Donald Trump said he was disappointed by British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s refusal to use the joint UK–U.S. military base on Diego Garcia island to strike Iran.
In an interview with The Telegraph, published on March 2, Trump said that Starmer’s initial refusal to let Washington use the Chagos Islands base was unlike anything that had “happened between our countries before.”
