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Starmer says UK wants to help with opening of Hormuz strait on Gulf visit

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Starmer says UK wants to help with opening of Hormuz strait on Gulf visit

PM is in Saudi Arabia before expected wider trip to regional allies, who may see him as more reliable than Trump

The UK has a “job” to help reopen the strait of Hormuz, Keir Starmer has said, as Iranian reports said the key shipping route was closed again just hours after a supposed ceasefire.

The prime minister met UK and local personnel at an airbase in Taif, Saudi Arabia, at the start of what is expected to be a wider trip to Gulf allies, one billed as a mirror to his efforts to pull together a plan for how a ceasefire might operate in Ukraine.

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Originally reported by The Guardian