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Posted on June 12, 2025
1 min readLast updated: January 23, 2026
The UK is monitoring the Middle East situation with no staffing updates yet, prioritizing staff safety amid US personnel moves.
LONDON (Reuters) -Britain is monitoring the situation in the Middle East but has no update on staffing in the region, a spokesperson for Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday after the United States announced it was moving some personnel due to security concerns.
"The safety of our staff is clearly our top priority so we are monitoring the situation closely but I don't have an update ... in terms of any partial evacuation or otherwise of our own embassies," the spokesperson told reporters.
(Reporting by Andrew MacAskill, writing by Elizabeth Piper, editing by William James)
The UK government is monitoring the situation in the Middle East closely.
There is currently no update on staffing in the region, according to the Prime Minister's spokesperson.
The safety of staff is the top priority, and the situation is being monitored closely.
The spokesperson stated that they do not have an update regarding any partial evacuation of embassies.
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