Keir Starmer accused of 'lazy attempt to outsource decisions of life and death' amid international law concerns

He stressed to Will there was a "general detachment from realpolitik, from shifting power balances geopolitically and a very lazy attempt to outsource decisions of life and death to international law".

"That is whatever a bunch of lefty activist lawyers say it is," he added.

Multiple times since the war began to spiral over the weekend, the Prime Minister has defended his decision not to allow US bombers launch strikes from UK bases.

He said he would not allow the UK to join a war without "a lawful basis and a viable, thought-through plan" - stirring up criticism from opponents, many of whom have taken aim at Sir Keir's "obsession" with international law.

"When the whole ecosystem of international law of NGOs (non-governmental organisations) and UN (United Nations) has been taken over by radical far-left activists, you end up with a scenario where international law is whatever these radical anti left activists say it is, and what they say it is, is always whatever makes Israel into the bad guys," Mr Levy said.

"That is no way to run your national security. It is no way to make decisions on life and death."

Yesterday, the former Israeli Government spokesman warned Iran was manufacturing 100 ballistic missiles a month, and were due to reach a point of "strategic invulnerability".

He told Will: "The West cannot manufacture 100 interceptors a month, and they're much more expensive to manufacture.

"So the Iranians are making more missiles than the West is making interceptors. They're cheaper than the West's interceptors, and they're building them in factories that are being fortified underneath mountains.

"That meant that within a year, the Iranian regime was going to become untouchable.

"It was going to have enough ballistic missiles and a well-fortified ballistic missile industry that no one would be able to threaten it with military force."

And, to those arguing the situation should be de-escalated and return to diplomatic negotiations, he responded: "Negotiations are only as good as the force that backs them up.

"At that point, the West would have had absolutely no cards."

After Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff said Iran claimed it had sufficient material to whip up 11 nuclear bombs, Mr Levy said: "If they did that after, there is no credible military threat because it would have been prohibitively trying to destroy the nuclear project by force.

"Then they would have been able to build a nuclear weapon whenever they wanted.

"So that was part of the thinking for the Americans of why this war had to happen now and couldn't be pushed off or postponed for another year.

"The balance of power was shifting to the Iranians in a way that meant that they would soon become untouchable, and there's nothing anyone could do about their nuclear weapons programme," he warned.

Looking at how Sir Keir Starmer was handling the situation the former spokesman said the Islamic Republic had Britain "in a bind".

He argued: "On the one hand, it seems to be trying to bait Britain into the war with the attacks on RAF Akrotiri. Whether they came from Iran directly or came from Hezbollah, it doesn't really matter.

"On the other hand, Britain knows that if it enters the war, it has a communist fifth column inside that will bring chaos inside Britain.

"Britain knows that Iran is one of the most destabilising factors that has been behind potentially lethal attacks on dissidents on UK soil."

The insider declared the UK's national security appears as if it takes place "within a bubble that is completely oblivious of reality".

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