{"id":9150,"date":"2026-04-14T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/9150\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T13:05:07","slug":"trumps-iranian-blockade-how-hard-could-it-hit-the-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/9150\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iranian blockade &#8211; how hard could it hit the UK?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title = \"Trump\u2019s Iranian blockade - how hard could it hit the UK?\"   width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uh9qt0vhuc8\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s Iranian blockade &#8211; how hard could it hit the UK?<br \/>\n<br \/>\nDonald Trump\u2019s blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz is underway but how long can it last, and have the Americans backed themselves into a corner?<\/p>\n<p>On Talking Politics, Tom and Robert examine why the blockade could become a \u201cslow and painful\u201d strategy.<\/p>\n<p>They also break down the latest \u201cdepressing\u201d forecasts for economic growth from the International Monetary Fund, a major blow to the UK economic outlook.<\/p>\n<p>And with fresh warnings from former Labour Defence Secretary and ex-NATO chief Lord Robertson that Britain\u2019s security is \u201cin peril,\u201d Tom and Robert discuss how Sir Keir Starmer should respond.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s Iranian blockade &#8211; how hard could it hit the UK? Donald Trump\u2019s blockade of Iranian ports in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[13221,26,39,380,379,263,1295,67,8467,10388,2601,267],"class_list":{"0":"post-9150","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-itv-news","8":"tag-global-oil-market","9":"tag-iran-war","10":"tag-israel","11":"tag-itv","12":"tag-itv-news","13":"tag-keir-starmer","14":"tag-labour-party","15":"tag-nato","16":"tag-president-donald-trump","17":"tag-robert-peston","18":"tag-uk-economy","19":"tag-uk-politics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@videos\/116403213617009990","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/videos\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}