Britain would be in a “much worse” position if Keir Starmer had done what others were calling on him to do by matching Donald Trump “tweet-for-tweet”, a UK cabinet minister has said.
Defending the prime minister’s handling of the deepening diplomatic crisis over Greenland and the US president’s threat of levying tariffs on the UK and other Nato allies, the energy secretary, Ed Miliband, declined to say if Britain would respond in kind.
