The US president piled pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to deepen the UK’s involvement in the escalating conflict in the Middle East

US president urges nations to deploy vessels to keep key oil shipping route open amid conflict with Iran

The US president piled pressure on Sir Keir Starmer to deepen the UK’s involvement in the escalating conflict in the Middle East

The US president says he hopes China, France, Japan and South Korea will also send ships to defend the key oil shipping route.

Prime minister says UK is working with allies on a plan to reopen the Strait of Hormuz but admits ending blockade is not ‘straightforward’

PM refuses to be drawn into wider conflict as Germany and Italy defy Trump’s call to help reopen strait of Hormuz

The prime minister has said the UK ‘will not be drawn into the wider war’ amid ongoing criticisms from Donald Trump