not condemned the operation<\/a>. Speaking on Monday, the home affairs minister Mike Tapp said it was for the US \u201cto lay out its legal basis for the actions that it has taken\u201d and that it was not yet possible for the UK to have a view.<\/p>\nThornberry said she was worried the US had not planned for what came next after Maduro was snatched on Saturday and flown to New York.<\/p>\n
She told Times Radio: \u201cBut my primary problem is that, in any event, there is no legal basis for this and it sets a really bad precedent for countries such as China and Russia, who may also think: \u2018Well, we\u2019ve got spheres of influence, why can\u2019t we do things like that within our sphere of influence, like Ukraine or Taiwan?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cAnd it\u2019s quite difficult to say that they can\u2019t, given that America has done it and there have been no consequences and very little criticism, at least from western governments.\u201d<\/p>\n
Condemnation from allies, even without any other punitive action, made countries think twice, Thornberry said. \u201cTo a certain extent the force of international law is that people generally accept that this is the way that you should behave, and if you don\u2019t behave in that way, then there is an international condemnation.<\/p>\n
\u201c[It] may not sound like a great deal, but although governments always say they don\u2019t care, they do care. They do care a lot, and there just needs to be certain international norms.\u201d<\/p>\n
Without any condemnation, she said, \u201cinternational law almost moves on\u201d and such actions bbecame more acceptable.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky News earlier on Monday, Tapp said further details of the government\u2019s response were likely to be announced in an expected Commons statement on Monday afternoon by the foreign secretary, Yvette Cooper,.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere we are at this point is that we are not displeased that this man [Maduro] is no longer in charge, that we 100% respect an international rules-based system and legality, and we\u2019re not pressured by social media and commentators to ensure we are quick in our response,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s about diplomacy. It\u2019s about talking to our allies and the United States.\u201d<\/p>\nIn her interview, Thornberry did not criticise Starmer explicitly, saying she understood the need to maintain relations with the US. \u201cI\u2019m not going to pretend this isn\u2019t difficult, and it is important that we keep a very important ally like America onboard,\u201d she said. \u201cWe have particularly the interests of Ukraine that we need to consider. But it\u2019s meaningless if we don\u2019t support international law.\u201d<\/p>\n
But, she said, the UK needed \u201cto be clearer that that this has been a breach of international law, and we do not agree that they should have done it\u201d. She added: \u201cYou just can\u2019t go around snatching leaders from different countries, taking them back to your domestic courts and trying them it will just end in anarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking to ITV\u2019s Good Morning Britain, Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said she would not condemn or condone the US action. She said: \u201cWhat President Trump has done is certainly unorthodox. I\u2019m not condemning it because I don\u2019t want to see someone like Maduro in charge, but I\u2019m not praising it either, because I think it raises lots of interesting questions about the world that we live in.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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