The UK is taking a “prominent role” in efforts to ensure a vital shipping route stays open in the future, US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said amid steps by Iran to impose a “toll booth” system in the Strait of Hormuz.
He said tackling Tehran’s stranglehold on the crucial waterway would be one of the “immediate challenges” following the current Middle East war and insisted “the world better step up” to deal with it.
