In The Room | Iran-US ceasefire: How can Starmer deal with Trump? | In The Room

What happens within the government when the US president threatens to “destroy an entire civilization”?

As tensions rise in the wake of Donald Trump’s extraordinary comments, former deputy cabinet secretary Helen MacNamara and Cleo Watson, a former adviser to Theresa May and Boris Johnson, take you into the rooms where officials scramble to respond to the unforeseen.

They also ask: How should Keir Starmer deal with a leader who changes direction by the hour? What would actually happen behind the scenes of the two-week ceasefire? As fuel costs rise and global norms shake, are we looking at a temporary crisis or the beginning of an entirely new world order?

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