In Foreign and Commonwealth Office questions in the House of Commons, Wera Hobhouse asked Jeremy Hunt, “The ongoing tensions between Iran and the US concern many of my constituents, particularly those who would like to see a world without nuclear weapons. Is the Secretary of State considering making the UK a signatory to the UN treaty on the prohibition of nuclear weapons?”
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Jeremy Hunt, responded “We are strong supporters of nuclear non-proliferation. We think it is one of the biggest and most important things achieved since the nuclear non-proliferation treaty of 1970. In this area, we take a different approach from the US, and I raised those concerns very openly with Mike Pompeo yesterday.”