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Support for the conflict (2 March)
With the US, alongside Israel, launching its much-anticipated attack on Iran over the weekend, initial data from Monday 2 March found Britons opposed to the attacks by 49% to 28%.
Attitudes differ significantly by party, with the majority of Reform UK voters (58%) and a plurality of Tories (49%) backing the strikes, but the majority of Labour and Lib Dem voters (63-64%) and Greens (70%) opposed.
Across the pond, the first survey by our colleagues at YouGov US found the American public opposed to the conflict by 48% to 37%.
US use of UK airbases (2 March)
Having previously denied the US permission to use RAF bases for strikes against Iran, Keir Starmer reversed this position, so long as the targets were restricted to missile sites – but this was not enough to avoid stinging criticism from Donald Trump (more on which lower down).
The move flies in the face of UK public opinion – our survey in late February had found 58% opposed to allowing the US to launch strikes from RAF bases, and the subsequent poll on Monday 2 March found that figure still stood at 50% when the ‘missile sites only’ caveat was included.
Again, Reform and Conservative voters are more in favour, while Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters are generally opposed.
The UK’s diplomatic response to the US attacks (2 March)
There have been calls for the government to praise or condemn the strikes, but initially Keir Starmer opted to avoid doing either – although some reports consider the PM to have subsequently criticised the attacks.
Fence-sitting is the favoured approach by the British public, 45% of whom said on Monday 2 March that the government should neither praise nor condemn the US for the Iran attacks. This was the most preferred option among Tories (60%) and to a lesser extent Labour and Lib Dem voters (44-47%).
One in five Britons (21%) wanted the UK to condemn the US for its actions (particularly the Greens, at 44%), while 12% wanted to praise America (Reform UK voters were most in favour, at 39% - joint with the number who think we should do neither).
Will the attacks result in regime change in Iran? (3 March)
Donald Trump urged Iranians to “take back your government” amidst the strikes, but do the public think regime change is a likely outcome of the attacks?
Britons are relatively split on the question: 37% think regime change is likely, while 32% see it as unlikely – and 31% aren’t sure.
Reform voters are most likely to think the attacks will result in a new government coming about in Iran (52%), while Lib Dems are the least likely (31%).
How has Keir Starmer handled the relationship with Donald Trump? (4-5 March)
Infuriated by the UK’s initial refusal to allow the US to use RAF bases for Iran strikes, Donald Trump launched a series of personal attacks on Starmer, mocking him as “no Winston Churchill”.
Keir Starmer has previously been praised for his seemingly unlikely ability to hold good relations with Donald Trump. Indeed, despite his otherwise unfavourable ratings, a YouGov survey in May 2025 found Britons split 38-38% on his handling of the UK’s relationship with Donald Trump.
No longer, it seems, with most Britons (52%) now believing the is managing relations with Trump badly. Only 32% disagree.
Labour and Lib Dem voters tend to think Starmer is still doing a good job at managing the relationship with Trump (48-53%) while Greens tend to think he is doing a bad job (47%), rising to 70% and 86% respectively for Tory and Reform voters.
How has Keir Starmer handled the UK’s response to the conflict? (4-5 March)
The British public tend to think Keir Starmer has managed the UK’s response to the US-Iran conflict badly, with 47% saying so compared to 34% who think he has managed it well.
Labour and Lib Dem voters (53-55%) generally think Starmer had managed the crisis well, while Green voters split 43% to 38%. By contrast, the majority of Reform UK (81%) and Tory voters (65%) feel Starmer has done a poor job.
What do Britons think the UK’s military stance should be? (4-5 March)
The most common view among the British public is that the UK’s stance should be “purely defensive, tasked with shooting down drones and defending civilian areas and UK military facilities”. Almost half (46%) gave this answer.
A further quarter (26%) said our role should be “retaliatory only, attacking military targets that have launched attacks against civilian areas and/or British military targets, but otherwise not getting involved”.
While only 8% seem to want the UK to become a party to the conflict, saying we should “be actively joining the US and Israel in launching attacks on a wide range of targets in Iran”.
Most Labour, Lib Dem and Green voters (59-61%) want the UK to take the ‘purely defensive' posture, while Tory voters are split between this and the ‘retaliatory’ option by 37-37%.
Among Reform UK voters, the retaliatory option is the most commonly preferred, at 35% - 28% prefer the purely defensive option, while 24% want to see the UK get actively involved in striking Iran.
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