UK not obliged to support every demand of ‘transactional’ US president, minister says
by Peter Walker Senior political correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#74902)
Pat McFadden says UK relations with US remain strong despite Donald Trump's threats to Nato allies
Donald Trump is a very transactional" president, whose repeated demands on Iran must be seen in this context, one of Keir Starmer's most senior ministers has said in an unusually blunt UK assessment of relations between the countries.
Asked about the US president's threats of some sort of retaliation against allies who do not supply ships to try to free up the strait of Hormuz, Pat McFadden, the work and pensions secretary, said the UK was not obliged to agree to every US request.
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