UK PM working with allies on 'viable plan' to open Strait of Hormuz
Keir Starmer said he is working with allies on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.
The UK prime minister has resisted Donald Trump’s demands to send Royal Navy warships to help secure the vital shipping route for oil and gas which has been effectively closed to tankers by the Iran war.
He said the UK was working with countries, including European allies, on a ‘viable plan’ to ease the crisis, which has driven up global oil prices.
The prime minister also set out measures to ease the cost-of-living pressures in the UK, with a plan to help households reliant on heating oil.
Setting out his response in a Downing Street press conference Starmer said he would not allow the UK to be drawn into a ‘wider war’ in the Middle East.
He said: ‘We’re working with all of our allies, including our European partners, to bring together a viable collective plan that can restore freedom of navigation in the region as quickly as possible and ease the economic impacts.’
By David Hughes, Christopher McKeon, Mathilde Grandjean and Clara Margotin, Press Association
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source: PA
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