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Sir Keir Starmer has said he “will not yield” over his support for Greenland amid Donald Trump’s threat of tariffs.
Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Sir Keir said: “Threats of tariffs to pressurise allies are completely wrong.
“But I do want to be clear with the House: I will not yield, Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs.”
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President Donald Trump threatened the UK and other European nations with a 10% tariff on all baseline goods coming to the US over the weekend, unless a deal can be reached on Greenland.
He says he wants to purchase Greenland, a self-autonomous Danish territory, for national security reasons.
But Sir Keir insisted to MPs that he had “made [his] position on Greenland absolutely clear”, and added that he would “engage constructively” with Mr Trump.
“The first of those is that the future of Greenland is for the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone,” he reiterated.
Sir Keir did not explicitly rule out retaliatory tariffs, but appeared to steer away from them, saying he was “working hard to make sure we do not get to that point”.
On Tuesday, the president hit out at the government’s deal to hand over sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, calling it “an act of great stupidity” and saying the agreement is another reason why the US must own Greenland.
Tory leader Kemi Badenoch sought to use those criticisms of the Chagos deal to her advantage.
But the prime minister insisted Mr Trump’s comments were only an attempt to force his hand on Greenland.
Sir Keir said: “President Trump…
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