Chancellor tells US audience she is ‘not convinced that this conflict has made the world a safer place’
Rachel Reeves, the chancellor, has told an American audience she does not know why they went to war against Iran.
Reviving criticisms of Donald Trump she has already stated, she said that she was “not convinced that this conflict has made the world a safer place” and that Trump seemed to have ended up in a worse position than he was before the war started.
Speaking at a CNBC event in Washington, where she is attending IMF meeting, Reeves said:
There were diplomatic negotiations happening before this. So if the aim is to now to get diplomatic negotiations, well, they were already happening before the conflict started …
