Sir Keir Starmer will lead a meeting of the Iran crisis committee on Tuesday as he warned the impact of the Iran war could continue “for some time”. The Prime Minister will convene the meeting with representatives from the Bank of England to discuss the war’s economic impact in the shadow of rising oil prices. He told the Usdaw union’s conference in Lancashire that he had called the meeting “so you can be sure we will stand by working people in this crisis”. The meeting of the Middle East Response Committee (MERC), the panel set up to deal with the fallout from the conflict, will take place after the Government warned the economic impact could last for eight months beyond the end of the war. Sir Keir said: “I have to level with you about Iran. “The truth is the economic consequences could still be with us for some time.…