How Britain helped Trump destabilise Venezuela

During the early hours of Saturday morning, US forces bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president, Nicolás Maduro.
This was a clear breach of international law, violating the terms of the UN charter which prohibit interference in and the use of force against sovereign states.
Yet Keir Starmer, a former human rights lawyer, has refused to condemn the attack or even acknowledge its brazen illegality.
“I want to get all the material facts together and we simply haven’t got the full picture at the moment”, the prime minister told the BBC on Saturday.
Starmer then wrote on social media that Britain “regarded Maduro as an illegitimate President and we shed no tears about the end of his regime”.
By contrast, it took him less than 24 hours to call Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine a “war of aggression”.
Former British ambassador Sir Richard Dalton told Declassified the government has failed to stand up against “the law of the jungle” with its “cynical” stance on Venezuela.
While …