JUST IN: Failing British PM Starmer Refuses To Help Enforce US Navy’s Strait of Hormuz Blockade
As Trump has said, Starmer ‘is no Winston Churchill’.
With the breakdown in peace negotiations between the US and Iran, President Donald J. Trump has determined that the US Navy will implement a naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz.
And, to no one’s surprise, this announcement was followed by a reaction from failing British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, who refused to join the blockade.
Apart from being another instance in which the Labour party leader fails to live up to his duty to his main ally, the US, it is also a black eye on the British Royal Navy and its much-degraded capabilities.
BREAKING: The UK will not be involved in a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz, Sky News understands.
Earlier today, Donald Trump said the U.S. Navy would be blocking the critical shipping route.
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— Sky News (@SkyNews) April 12, 2026
Trump ordered tankers to be stopped from entering or leaving the key oil and gas shipping lane.
The Telegraph reported:
“However, The Telegraph understands that Britain will not play a role in enforcing the blockade.
[…] Downing Street said the UK was ‘urgently working with France and other partners to put together a wide coalition to protect freedom of navigation’.
Britain has mine-hunting systems in the region that could be used to help clear the strait of naval mines laid by Iran, Sir Keir said.”
Trump’s plan to blockade the Strait of Hormuz would halt the nearly 2 million barrels a day of Iranian oil that’s been passing through the waterway, further squeezing global supply and cutting off a vital lifeline for the country. https://t.co/JZtXyYBd8w
— Bloomberg (@business) April 12, 2026
Meanwhile, Trump continued his attacks on Starmer, comparing him to the infamous British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, who chose appeasement of the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler in the 1930’s.
Trump compares Starmer’s actions on Iran with those of Neville Chamberlain
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— Visegrád 24 (@visegrad24) April 12, 2026
“Very disappointing – I mean, look at the United Kingdom. PM Starmer said ‘we’ll send the equipment after the war is over’. I said ‘you don’t need equipment when the war is over. You need the equipment before the war starts, or during the war’… He made a public statement that ‘we will send equipment after the war is over’, that’s a Neville Chamberlain statement.”
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