Wes Streeting warns rules-based international order is 'disintegrating' after Maduro capture

Wes Streeting, the health secretary, warned the international rules-based system was "disintegrating" in the aftermath of the US capture of the Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, saying the instability poses a threat to Britain. Streeting declined to criticise Donald Trump directly and said that the prime minister, Keir Starmer, did not have the "luxury of commentating", but suggested he was disturbed by the international picture and that the rules-based order was "creaking at the seams".

"I think what we’ve seen in Venezuela are morbid symptoms of the disintegration of the rules-based international system, and that is a real concern for the government and for Britain’s national interest, because a world without rules is a world in which we are less safe," Streeting said.

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World, Wes Streeting, Nicolas Maduro, Donald Trump, Keir Starmer, Venezuela