UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says the emergency Cobra meeting today will discuss “every lever available” to deal with the cost of living, given the ongoing Iran conflict.
Cobra meetings, (also called Cobr) are named after Cabinet Office Briefing Room A in Whitehall. The room is where senior ministers and officials gather in central London, to coordinate the emergency response to a crisis.
Given the unfolding war in Iran, Starmer says “most people” are concerned with the conflict itself, but also how it is going to affect them and their families.
“And so today we’re looking at the economic impact, and I am asking for every lever that’s available to the government to deal with the cost of living to be discussed at Cobra,” Starmer told reporters.
He says the Bank of England and others will be in attendance, adding that he wants to make sure that his government are “doing everything we possibly can” to mitigate cost of living impacts.