Question to the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the potential effect on the Middle East of the outcome of the 2020 US Presidential election.

The UK works closely with the US on matters relating to the Middle East and North Africa region, and we will continue to work closely with the US Administration, as we would normally do, on a variety of issues. Only the leaders of Middle Eastern and North African nations can determine whether their relationship with the US can meet the needs and aspirations of the people they represent. For more details on US relations with individual countries in the Middle East, you would need to speak to the US.