U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer is “fed up” with higher gas prices due to the actions of world leaders like U.S. President Donald Trump, he said in a recent interview.
Iran’s closure of the Strait of Hormuz has had global oil markets jittery, with the price of Brent crude oil – the international benchmark – rising to US$96.96 a barrel on Friday.
This has caused an energy crisis for Britain and much of Europe, and families in the U.K. are feeling the pinch, Starmer said.
The crisis in Iran has outlined the need for “energy independence,” Starmer said.
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“The only way to get energy independence is to go even more quickly to renewables because we’re not going to get it on the international market,” he said.
The Iran war has emerged as a fissure between the U.S. and its European allies, particularly Spain.
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While the EU, including Spain, welcomed the ceasefire announced earlier this week, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez criticized the U.S.
“The Spanish government will not applaud those who set the world on fire just because they turn up with a bucket,” Sanchez wrote on his X account.
The Strait of Hormuz remained closed and Israel launched fresh attacks on Lebanon on Friday, which the United States and Iran each flagged as violations of their ceasefire deal on the eve of their first peace talks over the war.
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance, who will lead the U.S. delegation, set off for the talks in Pakistan, saying he expected a positive outcome, but “if they’re going to try to play us, then they’re going to find the negotiating team is not that receptive.”
The two-day-old ceasefire has halted the campaign of U.S. and Israeli air strikes on Iran. But it has so far done nothing to end the blockade of the strait, which has caused the biggest-ever disruption to global energy supplies, or to calm a parallel war waged by Israel against Iran’s Hezbollah allies in Lebanon.
— with files from Reuters
he loves the distraction from the current state of Britain. now that we have a dictatorship in canada which is what a majority really is, we will end up in the same spot. bankrupt and destroyed. alberta seperation here we come!
Why is he upset at Putin? He is willing to sell oil to the UK. It is Trump and the suckers that joined him in issuing sanctions against Russian oil.
This is 100% Trump and Israel caused.
UK citizens are fed up with Starmer
Hey Starmer, how about production from the North Sea ?
Surely tax and environmental policies haven’t discouraged new projects there.
Surely the shift to renewable is going well and not driving g energy prices up in UK ?
But it’s better to blame others if you are a politician and your own policies are failing your citizens.
And you could help in the Strait of Hormuz but that would take a backbone.
Meanwhile the UK is sitting on all sorts of oil deposits of it’s own that it refuses to take advantage of.