Downing Street backs US missile strike on Syrian air base as an ‘appropriate response to a barbaric attack’ – and says May WAS told in advance

‘Britain has given full backing to the dramatic US missile strike on a Syrian air base in response to Bashar al-Assad’s ‘barbaric’ chemical attack – with Theresa May having given her blessing to Donald Trump before it happened.
The American president ordered the US military to fire 59 tomahawk missiles at al-Shayrat military airfield near Homs overnight.
Mr Trump believes the base’s jets launched the horrific nerve gas attack on Idlib province earlier this week which killed more than 80 men, women and children.
Downing Street said the missile attack, which destroyed Assad’s airfield and planes and killed at least five people, was an ‘appropriate response’.’
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