Keir Starmer: ‘We simply haven’t got the full picture at the moment’

The US has struck Venezuela’s capital Caracas and captured President Nicolás Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores. Maduro is now in detention in New York. In a press conference after the military operation, President Trump said that the US will ‘run the country until such time as we can do a safe… transition’, and that America’s ‘greatest oil companies in the world’ will be ‘very much involved’. In a long interview with Prime Minister Keir Starmer this morning, Laura Kuenssberg asked if an American attack on a sovereign state was in breach of international law, and whether the prime minister would condemn Trump’s actions. Starmer said it is a ‘fast moving situation’, that there was no UK involvement, and said he had been a ‘lifelong advocate of international law’. Kuenssberg noted that Nigel Farage has said the US action is ‘probably against international law’. Starmer said the government takes it ‘very seriously’, and he wanted to discuss with allies to gather ‘all the facts’.

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