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The rules-based strategy is "disintegrating earlier our eyes", elder curate Wes Streeting has warned successful absorption to Donald Trump's actions successful Venezuela and threats implicit Greenland.
Mr Streeting, the wellness caput and a imaginable Labour enactment contender, defended Sir Keir Starmer's stance since the US carried retired strikes connected Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro and his woman connected 3 January.
Since the subject operation, Mr Trump has besides ramped up threats to instrumentality implicit Greenland.
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In an interrogation with Sky's US spouse NBC News connected Monday, Mr Trump said helium is "very serious" astir annexing Greenland and said the US and Europe request it "for nationalist security".
Sir Keir and the overseas caput Yvette Cooper person been reticent to criticise the US implicit Venezuela, portion different countries are saying helium broke planetary instrumentality - but the prime curate has been wide that Greenland is Denmark's.
In the UK government's strongest stance implicit the past fewer days, Mr Streeting told Mornings with Ridge and Frost: "The premier curate chooses what to say, however to accidental it, and erstwhile to accidental it precise carefully.
"And what helium ever has astatine the forefront of his caput is however does helium marque definite that helium uses his power and leverage successful a mode that archetypal and foremost works to our nationalist interest, whether economical interests oregon information interests?
"And past for the corporate involvement arsenic good of our planetary information successful the rules-based strategy - which we've seen disintegrating earlier our eyes."
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He said the government's stance "is conscionable the quality of diplomacy" and the UK has a "different relationship" with the US to those countries that person criticised the US and Mr Trump.
"The premier curate has unsocial leverage and influence, and he's sought to bring that to carnivore consistently," helium added.
"And I would argue, effectively, to prosecute our interests."
On Monday evening, Ms Cooper said she had spoken to her US counterpart Marco Rubio and had "raised the value of complying with planetary law" - but would not accidental the US had breached it.
Dame Emily Thornberry, Labour seat of the influential overseas affairs committee, told Sky News she thinks the authorities should support planetary instrumentality "publicly" arsenic it is based connected the statement of countries astir the world.
"And truthful if 1 state does thing and its adjacent allies accidental thing astir it, past the accusation is, 'well, that's okay, I tin transportation connected behaving similar that'," she said.
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Mr Streeting, who called Mr Trump "an odious, bittersweet small man" successful 2017, admitted Mr Trump and Sir Keir are "not earthy governmental allies, with precise antithetic styles and precise antithetic characters".
"But the premier curate has worked done each of that with President Trump to physique a narration and effort to leverage that narration successful our nationalist interest, and I deliberation the premier curate has done it precise successfully," helium added.
On Mr Trump's threats to instrumentality implicit Greenland, which, arsenic a Danish territory, is portion of NATO, Mr Streeting said: "This is not the clip to destabilise NATO and to undermine our corporate security."
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