Greenland: UK won’t yield to Trump’s pressure – PM Starmer

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer says he will not surrender to the pressure from US President Donald Trump over the future of Greenland.

Starmer made this statement on Wednesday while addressing the  parliament.

He further informed the lawmakers that he would host Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen in London on Thursday.

“I will not yield, Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs, and that is my clear position,” he said.

Recall that Trump had threatened to impose tariffs on Britain and other European countries for opposing his claims on Greenland.

Starmer was also taunted in parliament by opposition Conservative Party leader Kemi Badenoch over Trump’s condemnation of his government’s Chagos Islands deal.

The Chagos agreement will see Britain hand the archipelago — some 2,000 kilometres (1,200 miles) northeast of Mauritius — to its former colony and pay to lease the US-UK military base there for a century.