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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Peter Walker Senior political correspondent

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

Keir Starmer meets members of the military
Keir Starmer meets aircrew members during a visit to airbase in Taif. He reiterated his insistence the UK was not ‘getting drawn into this war’. Photograph: Alastair Grant/AP

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 British and local military 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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