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Kemi Badenoch has piled pressure on the US President to reveal his strategy to reopen the Strait of Hormuz while oil prices continue to skyrocket across the globe. Joining GB News this afternoon, the Tory leader laid into Donald Trump because she was "not seeing a plan" from the Commander in Chief and demanded he ought to fix "the mess he's made" along the key waterway. Mrs Badenoch initially claimed her party backed the US-Israeli strikes on Tehran last month - but then later insisted she never supported the UK to involve itself in offensive action after the PM accused her of the "mother of all U-turns". But, today, the North West Essex MP told the People's Channel: "I want to know what the plan is. You know, I'm an engineer. I like to see plans. When I worked in that industry, you couldn't just say stuff and hope that it worked. TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say "I'm not seeing a plan, and that's very concerning. And I also want to see a plan in our country as well, to see our Prime Minister working in the British national interest." The leader's words on the People's Channel echoed Sir Keir Starmer's criticism of Mr Trump last month when he told MPs he required a "viable thought-through plan with an objective that can be achieved or has a viable prospect of being achieved". On GB News this afternoon, Mrs Badenoch went further in her criticism of the Commander in Chief's war efforts, saying: "Donald Trump has been saying all sorts of things. "We can understand why he started this war in Iran. It's a dangerous regime. It threatens the UK. It is a terrorist regime sponsoring the Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah. But you've got to have a plan. "And if he's made a mess in the Strait of Hormuz, he's the one that needs to fix it." Quoting US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the Tory leader simply declared: "If you break it, you own it." "So that's what I want to see now," she added. "Less of the chit chat, more of a plan and a clear, organised way of bringing this conflict to an end and working for Western interests and from my perspective, the British national interest, too." Asked if she now believed Sir Keir Starmer was correct to avoid involvement in the Iran war, she simply responded: "Well, no one asked him to get involved in the war." IRAN WAR LATEST: Kemi Badenoch slams Donald Trump for 'mess he's made' in Middle East despite support for Iran war Nato chief to hold emergency talks in US after Donald Trump threatened to pull out of alliance Nigel Farage sacks Reform UK’s housing chief after ‘shameful’ Grenfell remarks She continued: "What we asked was that he expressed support like Canada and Australia did, because we're not on the side of Iran, and also to protect British bases and allow Trump to use our air bases, because we need the US for defence support. "There was one point where the US was protecting our bases. That shouldn't be the case. It took two weeks, I think three weeks even to get HMS Dragon out of Portsmouth. "We don't have a defence investment plan." MORE TO FOLLOW... Our Standards: The GB News Editorial Charter
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