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It’s hardly a Love Actually moment of brave UK defiance in the face of a domineering US president- but Sir Keir Starmer has clearly decided it’s time to start pushing back.
Donald Trump, he has said, is “completely wrong” to slap tariffs on the UK and other European countries “for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies.”
He’s not going as far as President Macron, who has pledged never to change course in the face of “intimidation or threat”.
But while the PM has previously been clear about the UK’s staunch support for Denmark – he’s always usually very cautious in his dealings with the mercurial president.
Starmer has invested huge political capital and personal energy in developing a personal connection with Donald Trump, despite their obvious differences.
Indeed the PM’s efforts at strengthening the so-called special relationship – particularly in the service of Ukraine – have been widely seen as one of the more successful aspects of his bumpy premiership thus far.
But that relationship has become decidedly abusive – Trump accuses the UK and other European allies of “playing a very dangerous game” in travelling to Greenland “for purposes unknown”.
The UK has sent just one single military officer to Greenland to carry out a reconnaissance mission ahead of a future joint exercise in the area, alongside a handful of troops from other countries.
Greenland’s capital, Nuuk. File pic: AP
While this was clearly done in solidarity with the Danes and Greenlanders, the idea was also precisely to demonstrate that NATO has been listening to the…
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