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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Dan Sabbagh in Naples

UK downplays reports it has stopped sharing intelligence with US regarding narco-traffickers

Yvette Cooper and John Healey onboard HMS Prince of Wales.
Yvette Cooper and John Healey visit HMS Prince of Wales, which has been placed under Nato command in a European first. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA

Britain’s foreign secretary has downplayed reports that the UK had stopped sharing intelligence with the US that could be used by the Americans to conduct deadly attacks against alleged narco-traffickers in the Caribbean.

Yvette Cooper, speaking on a ministerial trip to Naples, said “longstanding intelligence and law enforcement frameworks” that existed between the countries were continuing as the US deployed a carrier strike group to the region.

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