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Keir Starmer has said Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose 10% tariffs on the UK and seven other European countries over Greenland was \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d.<\/p>\n
The US president said the levies would apply from 1 February to Nato members \u2013 including the UK, France and Germany \u2013 who have deployed troops to the territory in response to growing uncertainty over its future.<\/p>\n
Trump said the tariffs would rise to 25% on 1 June if a deal to buy Greenland had not been reached.<\/p>\n
In a Truth Social post, Trump said: \u201cDenmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, The United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and Finland have journeyed to Greenland, for purposes unknown \u2026 This is a very dangerous situation for the Safety, Security, and Survival of our Planet.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prime minister said on Saturday evening: \u201cOur position on Greenland is very clear \u2013 it is part of the Kingdom of Denmark and its future is a matter for the Greenlanders and the Danes.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have also made clear that Arctic security matters for the whole of Nato and allies should all do more together to address the threat from Russia across different parts of the Arctic.<\/p>\n
\u201cApplying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of Nato allies is completely wrong. We will of course be pursuing this directly with the US administration.\u201d<\/p>\n
Opposition politicians also condemned Trump\u2019s threats.<\/p>\n
The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, said: \u201cPresident Trump is completely wrong to announce tariffs on the UK over Greenland.<\/p>\n
\u201cThese tariffs will be yet another burden for businesses across our country. The sovereignty of Greenland should only be decided by the people of Greenland.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ed Davey, leader of the Liberal Democrats, said: \u201cStarmer\u2019s US policy lies in tatters. Trump is now punishing the UK and Nato allies just for doing the right thing.<\/p>\n
\u201cTime for the PM to stand firm against the bully in the White House, and work with European and Commonwealth allies to make him back down from this reckless plan.\u201d<\/p>\n
<\/span>Protesters take part in a rally in Copenhagen, Denmark, under the slogans \u2018hands off Greenland\u2019 and \u2018Greenland for Greenlanders\u2019.<\/span> Photograph: Emil Helms\/Ritzau Scanpix\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n The Reform leader, Nigel Farage, said Trump\u2019s Greenland tariffs would \u201churt\u201d the UK. He said: \u201cWe don\u2019t always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n Stella Creasy, the Labour MP for Walthamstow, said: \u201cTrump\u2019s tariffs and threats mean it\u2019s make your mind up time. If we can\u2019t rely on America and we don\u2019t want to cosy up to China, the answer is to get serious about our strategic future with Europe.<\/p>\n \u201cNato needs this too \u2013 the reset must be real, and it must happen quickly for all our sakes.\u201d<\/p>\n Lord Peter Ricketts, a former national security adviser and retired senior diplomat, told BBC Radio 4\u2019s PM programme that \u201cthe right thing for the European countries is to react very calmly\u201d and \u201cgo on making the case that America can have all its security interests served by working with Denmark and with Nato\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRemember that in the cold war, America had 10,000 troops in Greenland, so it\u2019s entirely open to the Americans to increase their military presence without going unilateral and these kind of threatening approaches,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He added that European leaders could in private make clear that \u201cthis tariff business isn\u2019t going to work \u2013 for one thing, the European Union has a single tariff, so he will find he can\u2019t put tariffs on individual EU countries; it\u2019s the EU as a whole\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cRather than threatening tariffs, we need to be working together to work out the very legitimate issues about Greenland security \u2013 not that China is about to take it over, but that all of us in Nato have Arctic security as a priority,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n \u201cThe way to do this is to work together and in the past, I think Keir Starmer and others have been quite effective at working with President Trump privately, not taking him on in public, and I think we need to go back into that routine to get him to see that there are other ways of achieving what he wants without this sort of threatening, blustering language about tariffs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Keir Starmer has said Donald Trump\u2019s decision to impose 10% tariffs on the UK and seven other European countries over Greenland was \u201ccompletely wrong\u201d. The US president said the levies would apply from 1 February to Nato members \u2013 including the UK, France and Germany \u2013 who have deployed troops to the territory in response<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41996,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[1632,6919,12523,1346,1347,72,1162,71,3038],"class_list":{"0":"post-41995","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-politics","8":"tag-completely","9":"tag-greenland","10":"tag-impose","11":"tag-keir","12":"tag-starmer","13":"tag-tariffs","14":"tag-threat","15":"tag-trumps","16":"tag-wrong"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/41996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}