Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed Israel gave Britain intelligence about the incident last Sunday near the RAF Fairford military base, without providing any evidence.

The Israeli prime minister also suggested the British government has given in to an “Islamist-Marxist alliance”, less than a day after an Israeli minister labelled British Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood an “Islamist”.

In an interview with Fox News, Netanyahu said: “You talked about the thing in Britain. Do you want to hear how absurd things are there? And how far the anti-Israeli propaganda has gone?”

He added: "We gave the Brits the intel, that there was going to be an attack, and it’s an Iranian-sponsored attack, and pretty much the next day they slap sanctions on us.

“It’s wild, the caving in, the collapse before the Islamist-Marxist alliance is very dangerous for the future of the West.”