Starmer says he 'will not yield' over Greenland amid tariff threat

Sir Keir Starmer has said helium "will not yield" implicit his enactment for Greenland amid Donald Trump's menace of tariffs.

Speaking astatine Prime Minister's Questions, Sir Keir said: "Threats of tariffs to pressurise allies are wholly wrong.

"But I bash privation to beryllium wide with the House: I volition not yield, Britain volition not output connected our principles and values astir the aboriginal of Greenland nether threats of tariffs."

President Donald Trump threatened the UK and different European nations with a 10% tariff connected each baseline goods coming to the US implicit the weekend, unless a woody tin beryllium reached connected Greenland.

He says helium wants to acquisition Greenland, a self-autonomous Danish territory, for nationalist information reasons.

But Sir Keir insisted to MPs that helium had "made [his] presumption connected Greenland perfectly clear", portion helium added that helium would "engage constructively" with Mr Trump.

"The archetypal of those is that the aboriginal of Greenland is for the radical of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone," helium reiterated.

Sir Keir did not explicitly regularisation retired retaliatory tariffs, but appeared to steer distant from them.

On Tuesday, the president deed retired astatine the government's woody to manus implicit sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it "an enactment of large stupidity" and saying the statement is different crushed wherefore the US indispensable ain Greenland.

Tory person Kemi Badenoch sought to usage those criticisms of the Chagos woody to her advantage.

But the premier curate insisted Mr Trump's comments astir the Chagos Archipelago are lone an effort to unit his manus connected Greenland.

Sir Keir said: "President Trump deployed words connected Chagos yesterday that were antithetic to his erstwhile words of invited and enactment erstwhile I met him successful the White House.

"He deployed those words yesterday for the explicit intent of putting unit connected maine and Britain successful narration to my values and principles connected the aboriginal of Greenland."

"[Trump] wants maine to output connected my position, and I'm not going to bash so."

The PM besides deed retired astatine Ms Badenoch raising the US president's comments connected the deal.

He said: "Now she appears to enactment words by President Trump to undermine the government's presumption connected the aboriginal of Greenland. She's chosen bare opportunism implicit the nationalist interest."

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