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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker in Ottawa and Aletha Adu

Keir Starmer in diplomatic push to head off Middle East crisis before G7 summit in Canada

Mark Carney and Keir Starmer in Ottawa
The Canadian and UK prime ministers, Mark Carney and Keir Starmer, in Ottawa . Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/PA

Keir Starmer is beginning an urgent diplomatic push to try to head off the crisis in the Middle East, as the Foreign Office warned Britons not to travel to Israel after further retaliatory attacks by Iran.

Downing Street did not rule out the possibility of having to evacuate UK nationals from Israel if matters deteriorated, saying officials were keeping all contingency plans “under constant review”.

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