|  | | Monday, 2 March | | | By 49% to 28%, Britons oppose US strikes on Iran | | | | With the US, alongside Israel, launching its much-anticipated attack on Iran over the weekend, today’s survey shows that Britons are opposed to the attacks by 49% to 28% | |
| | Attitudes differ significantly by party, however: the majority of Reform UK voters (58%) back the strikes, as do a plurality of Tories (49%) | |
| | By contrast, 63-64% of Labour and Lib Dem voters are opposed, as are 70% of Greens | |
| | Across the pond, our colleagues at US found the American public opposed to the conflict by 45% to 36% | |
| | | | | | | | Keir Starmer this morning announced that he had reversed his previous opposition to the US using RAF bases to launch attacks on Iran, so long as the targets were restricted to missile sites | |
| | He does so in the face of public opposition – our survey in late February found 58% opposed to allowing the US to launch strikes from RAF bases, and today’s poll finds that figure still stands at 50% when the ‘missile sites only’ caveat is included | |
| | Again, Reform and Conservative voters are more in favour, while Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters are generally opposed | |
| | | | | | | | There have been calls for the government to praise or condemn the strikes, but they have settled for a middle ground where they avoid doing either | |
| | This approach is likewise favoured by the public, 45% of whom say the government should neither praise nor condemn the US for the Iran attacks – this is the most preferred option among Tories (60%) and to a lesser extent Labour and Lib Dem voters (44-47%) | |
| | 21% want the UK to condemn the US for its actions (particularly the Greens, at 44%), while 12% want to praise America (Reform UK voters are most in favour, at 39% - joint with the number who think we should do neither) | |
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