British finance minister Rachel Reeves hits out at the “folly” of US President Donald Trump launching a war with Iran “without a clear exit plan.”
The comments to the Daily Mirror newspaper come as Reeves prepares to head to Washington for an International Monetary Fund meeting set to detail the economic impact of the conflict.
Reeves is one of several British government ministers, including the premier Keir Starmer, to express growing exasperation at the actions in the Middle East of its close ally.
“This is a war that we did not start. It was a war that we did not want,” Reeves, who is struggling to fire up Britain’s anemic economy, tells the tabloid.
“I feel very frustrated and angry that the US went into this war without a clear exit plan, without a clear idea of what they were trying to achieve,” she adds.
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