UK prime minister describes situation as fast-moving and is waiting for more details to emerge
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Sir Keir Starmer has said the UK was not involved in the US operation in Venezuela, in which the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife were “captured” by special forces and the capital, Caracas, hit with airstrikes.
Speaking for the first time since Donald Trump launched his extraordinary attack, the prime minister said he had not spoken to the US president, and that the UK was keen to establish “the facts” of what had happened.
Starmer said the government was working with the British embassy in Caracas to support the 500 Britons in Venezuela.
