The prime minister says he will look into forever chemical contamination near a former RAF base.

Sir Keir Starmer has said he will “make sure” that the “appropriate steps are taken” to tackle ‘forever chemical’ contamination at a former RAF base.

The prime minister had been responding to Bicester and Woodstock MP Calum Miller, who raised concerns over the contamination at the former RAF Upper Heyford in parliament on Wednesday.

It comes after local residents paid for independent testing in a stream near the historic airbase, which found levels of ‘forever chemicals’ 43,000 times higher than environmental standards.