{"id":892966,"date":"2026-04-14T07:52:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/892966\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T07:52:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T07:52:15","slug":"uk-sets-up-brexit-style-crisis-team-to-deal-with-iran-conflict-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/892966\/","title":{"rendered":"UK sets up Brexit-style crisis team to deal with Iran conflict \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The official said the group will focus on medium-term scenario planning over the coming weeks and months, starting with efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Treasury officials are braced for a surge in the cost of living, while experts have warned Britain could face shortages of jet fuel in future.<\/p>\n<p>Downing Street has not yet set out the new committee&#8217;s membership, although further details are expected to be published later on Tuesday. Meetings of the government&#8217;s emergency COBR committee will continue in parallel.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/inside-the-keir-starmer-foreign-policy-team-trying-survive-donald-trump-world\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Some officials had voiced concerns to POLITICO<\/a> about the extent to which Starmer&#8217;s foreign policy thinking relies on one man, National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell. He is simultaneously the PM&#8217;s foreign policy adviser and travels abroad to negotiate on Starmer&#8217;s behalf.<\/p>\n<p>One Whitehall official, granted anonymity to speak frankly, said: &#8220;No one is bringing our priorities together in a distinct way or managing people going up against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Esther Webber contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The official said the group will focus on medium-term scenario planning over the coming weeks and months, starting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892967,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,6178,487,2000,299,5187,1699,805,39,4884,774,807,839,196769,811,16,15],"class_list":["post-892966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brexit","tag-brexit","tag-britain","tag-conflict","tag-cost-of-living","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-european","tag-european-union","tag-foreign-policy","tag-fuels","tag-great-britain","tag-iran","tag-keir-starmer","tag-middle-east","tag-no-deal-brexit","tag-security","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116401979392564021","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=892966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}