UK Reform

US President Donald Trump has called on the United Kingdom to deploy Royal Navy warships to the Strait of Hormuz, warning that the critical waterway must be kept open amid escalating hostilities with Iran. In a post on his Truth Social platform today, Mr. Trump urged the UK and other allied nations to send naval vessels to the region to secure the passage of commercial shipping, after the obliteration of Iranian power. "Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK, and others, that are affected by this artificial constraint, will send ships to the area so that the Hormuz strait will no longer be a threat by a nation that has been totally decapitated", the former president wrote. The intervention comes as tensions in the Middle East reach a boiling point. The Strait of Hormuz, a narrow channel between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, is one of the world’s most important maritime chokepoints. Approximately 20 million barrels of oil—roughly one-fifth of the gl...