Left-wing MPs queued up to rail against US and Israeli strikes against Iran and demand the UK keep out of the conflict.
Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green MPs accused Sir Keir Starmer of being Donald Trump‘s ‘poodle’ and invoked the Iraq war.
They took turns to attack the Prime Minister even though he has not backed the military action by the UK’s allies against the despotic regime.
Following the PM’s statement to Parliament, Jeremy Corbyn, the former Labour leader, told MPs that the UK should not take part but work towards an immediate ceasefire.
He previously described the strikes as ‘attacks’ on Iran which he said were a ‘flagrant breach of international law’ and ‘illegal, unprovoked and unjustifiable’.
He joined hundreds of pro-Iran protesters at a London rally at the weekend to end ‘Trump’s wars’ whose organisers urged people to gather under the slogan ‘Hands Off Iran’.
Speaking in the Chamber, his former shadow chancellor, Labour MP John McDonnell, said: ‘From Iraq to Afghanistan to Libya, I think many of us know the way this goes.’
He added: ‘We need clarity of our role as a country, an independent country, not necessarily swayed by even Donald Trump.’
Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and his brother Piers Corbyn attend a protest last month against the US-Israeli attacks on Iran
Hard Left Labour MP Richard Burgon described the strikes as an ‘extremely dangerous moment’. He added: ‘Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya show where this can end up with death, destruction, terror and chaos, impacting tens of millions of people.
‘By siding with Trump hasn’t the Prime Minister risked dragging us into a wider conflict, which leads us all less safe?’
Labour MP Emily Thornberry, chair of the Foreign Affairs select committee, said the attack on Iran by the US and Israel was ‘ill-advised, ill-judged and illegal’.
She previously said she was ‘pleased’ that the UK was not involved in the strikes on Iran which she has condemned.
The Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey also waded in, having called for a parliamentary vote on Sir Keir’s decision to allow the US to use UK bases for defensive action.
‘Once again, President Trump has launched a unilateral and unlawful act,’ he said.
‘We have seen before what happens when an American president launches an illegal war with no idea how or when it is going to end, and we fear for what comes next.’
Diane Abbott, the former Labour MP, referred to the Iraq war as she said: ‘Our constituents are not prepared to see this country dragged into another war.’
Her fellow former Labour MP, Zarah Sultana, who is a member of Mr Corbyn’s Your Party, went further.
She asked the PM: ‘Is the genocide of the Palestinian people not enough for this Labor government?
‘Is he proud to be another Labour prime minister obediently following Washington into yet another illegal war in the Middle East, making us all less safe?
‘And finally, how much does he enjoy being Donald Trump’s poodle?’
Labour MP Imran Hussain added: ‘Britain is not Trump’s poodle, and never again will we be a launch pad for illegal and endless wars that have no plan and no end.’
Green Party MP Ellie Chowns said she condemned the ‘deeply irresponsible and illegal attack by the US and Israel on Iran launched in the middle of nuclear negotiations led by Trump, a clearly unstable loose cannon and Netanyahu, a war criminal.’
Her party leader Zack Polanski has called for an end to Britain’s Special Relationship with the US and described the US and Israel as ‘rogue states’.
His deputy leader Mothin Ali also appeared at the pro-Iran rally at the weekend where chants of ‘death to America’ and ‘death to Israel’ were heard.