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Sir Keir Starmer's right-hand antheral refused to accidental whether the US has breached planetary instrumentality by striking Venezuela and capturing its president.
Darren Jones, main caput to the premier minister, told Sunday Morning with Trevor Phillips it was "for the Americans to acceptable retired the ineligible ground for their operation".
He besides confirmed the UK was not progressive and was not informed beforehand.
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However, erstwhile Conservative overseas caput Priti Patel said the UK should "absolutely" person anticipated what was going to hap arsenic "it's beauteous wide that was the absorption of travel".
US airstrikes were carried retired crossed Venezuela successful the aboriginal hours of Saturday morning, erstwhile President Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, were captured and flown to the US, arriving successful New York connected Sunday, wherever they were charged with narco-terrorism.
Mr Trump said connected Saturday the US volition "run" Venezuela until a "proper transition" tin instrumentality place.
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In the UK government's archetypal absorption to that, Mr Jones said they are "not wholly wide yet what President Trump meant by those comments" and insisted nary assumptions should beryllium made - but said they are "not successful favour of colonialism".
He refused aggregate times to accidental whether the US had violated planetary law, which respective different nations person questioned - including France, Spain, Canada, Germany, arsenic good arsenic UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
Mr Jones said: "We're advocates for planetary instrumentality and the rules based order. But I can't springiness you a presumption close present connected President Trump's ineligible ground for his operation, due to the fact that that's for the Americans to explain."
He added: "It's for planetary courts to marque judgments connected planetary law."
Sir Keir would besides not beryllium drawn connected whether the US broke planetary law, telling the BBC helium was waiting to found each the facts but would not "shy distant from this", adding helium was a "lifelong advocator of planetary law".
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The caput of MI6 from 2009 to 2014, Sir John Sawers, told Trevor Phillips the US cognition would "not person passed muster" successful the UK oregon Europe arsenic Mr Trump's authorities is relying upon a instrumentality enforcement ineligible ground alternatively than defence.
"I'm not amazed Keir Starmer and his authorities person distanced themselves from this cognition without really making immoderate disapproval of it, due to the fact that it wouldn't walk muster present successful the UK," helium said.
"But Americans are a instrumentality unto themselves."
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