Starmer is refusing to send warships to help reopen the Strait of Hommuz.

But ministers are considering sending these like mine hunting drones.

So it's somebody manning them from somewhere else.

It's the computer game version of warfare.

Hello, Malcolm. Hello and welcome to The Rest is Money with me, Robert Paston.

And with me, Steph McGovern.

So we are now in the third week of the Middle East crisis.

The oil price is still over $100 a barrel.

You know, wholesale gas prices are up 60% since this all started,

and lots of other important costs are going up too. You know, we've talked about fertilizer,

key for farming. That's up over 30%. So today we're going to look at what Starmer is going to

need to do to try and control the rising cost of living here, which is inevitable

from all of this. And where the UK's plans for growth sit in this too. But first, Robert,

let's start with this request now by Trump to get everyone on side to help get things moving in the straight of Hormuz.

You know, we've talked about how important this straight is,

which is a key bit of waterway for getting through lots of, you know,

like the oil and gas and the fertilizer and everything else.

This is a really important bit of waterway.

And now Trump's asking for our help, isn't he, on getting movement?

What's your take on it?

So this is, I think, possibly the biggest sort of moment in terms of how the international

community responds to Trump's and Israel's war since the war began. Trump has said explicitly that he wants

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