
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has placed the United Kingdom on a collision course with the White House, branding Donald Trump's threat to impose sweeping tariffs on European allies as 'completely wrong.'
In an emergency press conference at Downing Street on Monday, 19 January 2026, he insisted that the future of Greenland is a matter solely for the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark, vowing to uphold international law against what he described as 'economic pressure' and 'blackmail.'