Wes Streeting: ‘Trump has said some outrageous things’

J.D. Vance has left Pakistan after high level negotiations between the US and Iran ended without reaching an agreement. On Sky News this morning, Health Secretary Wes Streeting told Trevor Phillips that it was ‘disappointing’ there had been no breakthrough, but he said in diplomacy, ‘you’re failing until you succeed’. Phillips asked what the UK government is doing to prepare for an extended conflict. Streeting said the Foreign Secretary has been meeting allies in the region to ‘see what we can do’ to get trade moving through the Strait of Hormuz again and that the government is keeping the impact of the conflict ‘under close review’. Phillips asked Streeting about Donald Trump’s claim that the US is ‘clearing’ the Strait of Hormuz. Streeting described some of the US President’s language over the past week as ‘incendiary, provocative, outrageous’ – but claimed that Trump had to be judged on ‘what he does, not just what he says’. The Health Secretary argued that the only way out of the conflict is through an agreement with Iran that ‘puts nuclear weapons beyond its ambitions’.

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