{"id":48773,"date":"2026-03-17T13:52:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-might-the-uk-support-shipping-in-the-strait-of-hormuz\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T13:52:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T13:52:50","slug":"how-might-the-uk-support-shipping-in-the-strait-of-hormuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/how-might-the-uk-support-shipping-in-the-strait-of-hormuz\/","title":{"rendered":"How might the UK support shipping in the Strait of Hormuz?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK is working with its allies on a &#8220;viable plan&#8221; to restore freedom of navigation to the Strait of Hormuz. It comes after Donald Trump asked countries, including Britain, to send ships to to the area to keep the Strait &#8220;open and safe&#8221;. Ben Chu from BBC Verify has been looking at what role the Royal Navy could play in any such operation, and the risks involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><i id=\"produced-by-jemimah-herd.-motion-graphics-by-mesut-ersoz.-verification-by-thomas-spencer-and-joshua-cheetham.\" class=\"sc-d16436d-0 iVdNuz\">Produced by Jemimah Herd. Motion Graphics by Mesut Ersoz. Verification by Thomas Spencer and Joshua Cheetham.<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/live\/cx2lr40g17kt\" class=\"sc-f9178328-0 iCaRzc\">More on the Iran war.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cvgj29dgrxwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Keir Starmer has confirmed the UK is working with its allies on a &#8220;viable plan&#8221; to restore freedom of navigation to the Strait of Hormuz. It comes after Donald Trump asked countries, including Britain, to send ships to to the area to keep the Strait &#8220;open and safe&#8221;. Ben Chu from BBC Verify has been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[13982,3200,3643,1366],"class_list":["post-48773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reality-check","tag-hormuz","tag-shipping","tag-strait","tag-support"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48773"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48775,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48773\/revisions\/48775"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}