Starmer has landed in Saudi Arabia on his vanity jolly and spoken to broadcasters. Here we go…
He said there is “still a lot of work to do” to reopen the Strait of Hormuz:
“There’s work to do. It’s early days…”
He added there is “a real sense” of relief after the supposed ceasefire. He claimed his ‘leading’ work to reopen the strait was crucial “because the impact on our energy prices, you can see it on a daily basis over the last 39 days, it’s our job to make sure that the strait is open, that we’re able to get the energy that the world needs out and stabilise the prices back in the United Kingdom.” What will that work entail when the only navy warship in the region is docked for repair?
Former Labour leader Neil Kinnock was asked if Burnham will take Britain back into the EU:
“Yes, sure – his commitment is authentic. He really does understand from the grassroots up why restoring what I think of as normality in our continent is vital for every party economically, politically, culturally, in terms of security, and he’s able to articulate it in language that people can understand. So yeah, he is definitely”.