in a position to

Mr Benn said he is not in a position to say whether the UK would make a contribution.

US state department spokesman Matthew Miller meanwhile told a news conference in Washington that he was “not in a position to dispute the reports” about the whereabouts of Hamas’s leadership.

“I didn’t think I was going to have this career from the beginning of the script of ‘The Fire Inside’ to the film being made where I could be in a position to create a halo for someone to step in and tell their story.

But if you were too scared then to do the right thing, it is really, really tough to imagine constructing a spine now that Trump is actually in a position to put you in the crosshairs.

"Given the delicate nature of this we are not in a position to comment any further," said McNulty.