{"id":262628,"date":"2025-03-20T04:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/watch-starmer-visits-uk-nuclear-armed-submarine\/"},"modified":"2025-03-20T04:56:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T04:56:15","slug":"watch-starmer-visits-uk-nuclear-armed-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/20\/watch-starmer-visits-uk-nuclear-armed-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch: Starmer visits UK nuclear-armed submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i3.wp.com\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/5b32\/live\/1dda7fb0-0540-11f0-94d4-6f954f5dcfa3.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Watch: Starmer visits UK nuclear-armed submarine\" title=\"Watch: Starmer visits UK nuclear-armed submarine\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has visited the crew of HMS Vanguard after the submarine returned to UK waters after months of undersea service. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The nuclear-armed submarine had been patrolling for more than 200 days, marking one of the longest deployments in British Royal Navy history. <!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Sir Keir, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary John Healey, was the first prime minister to visit the boat&#8217;s &#8220;Day Zero&#8221; at Barrow-in-Furness in more than a decade.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">The prime minister told reporters the Kremlin respected the UK&#8217;s nuclear arsenal because &#8220;we&#8217;ve got our own independent deterrent and we&#8217;re committed to Nato&#8221;.<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">&#8220;What is obviously important is they appreciate that it is what it is which is a credible capability,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And that it most certainly is.&#8221;<!-- --><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-eb7bd5f6-0 fezwLZ\">Britain is hosting a closed meeting on Thursday of senior military officers from the &#8220;Coalition of the Willing&#8221; as they draw up plans for a proposed peacekeeping force for Ukraine.<!-- --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cwyd0pkelqno\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has visited the crew of HMS Vanguard after the submarine returned to UK waters after months of undersea service. The nuclear-armed submarine had been patrolling for more than 200 days, marking one of the longest deployments in British Royal Navy history. Sir Keir, who was accompanied by Defence Secretary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/1024\/branded_news\/5b32\/live\/1dda7fb0-0540-11f0-94d4-6f954f5dcfa3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[603],"tags":[202220,3960,13788,6137,1579],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262628"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262630,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262628\/revisions\/262630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}