In the British Ministry of Defense announced the need to increase the budget of the Navy of the country

It is reported by Sky News.

He stressed the need to increase investment.

Earlier it was reported that British Prime Minister Teresa May will hold a meeting of the COBRA Emergency Government Committee (Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms) in connection with the detention by Iran of a British tanker in the Strait of Hormuz.

On July 19, representatives of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps detained a British tanker Stena Impero in the Strait of Hormuz and escorted him to the port of Bandar Abbas.