PM May last emergency meeting on Monday to address seizure of UK flagged oil tanker

Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:37 UTC

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Prime Minister Theresa May will hold a meeting of Britain's emergencies committee on Monday to discuss Iran's seizure of a UK-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf. In one of her final important acts as prime minister before resigning on Wednesday, May will chair a meeting of Britain's COBR emergencies committee at around 10.30am (0930 GMT), her Downing Street office said. Read full article

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Islander1
Totally puzzles me why UK is wasting any time or effort over this ship. Yes GB lagged but UK should have just told owners and operators- “YOU were stupid idiots- you knew what Iran would do to an unguarded UK Flagged vessel- they had been saying it daily for 2 weeks and already tried it once, you were stupid enough to not wait a day or whatever until you could have been accompanied close by a RN Warship- so your problem and serves you right”.
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chronic
Royal navy. Lol.

So parliament wants to block Johnson. Interesting spin on democracy.
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The Barron
The question is why is this piece appearing in Mercopenguin, a British government propaganda organ supposedly devoted to America, South America and the “South Atlantic”?
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