That is a very fair question. The truth is that we have to do that by being very frank with the Trump Administration when we disagree with them and about why we disagree with them. I think that, under the surface, the positions are a bit closer than they might look in the simple sense that I have actually had a number of conversations with President Trump himself about his concerns about what would happen if that region became nuclearised. I do not think the United States is indifferent to the nuclear threat in that region, and they have started to talk a lot about that recently. We use our influence, I suppose in private circles, as much as we can to try to get a meeting of minds.
Situation in the Gulf
Proceeding contribution from
Jeremy Hunt
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 22 July 2019.
It occurred during Ministerial statement on Situation in the Gulf.
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