UK hits back at Argentinian Falklands claim and insists islands remain British

Javier Milei making a television address on Thursday in which he said the ‘winds of change’ favoured his country’s claim to the Falklands. Photograph: Argentina's presidency press office/AFP/Getty Images

British ministers have hit back after the Argentinian president said “winds of change” favourable to his country’s claim to the Falklands were “blowing around the world”.

The foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, said the UK would “resolutely uphold” the self-determination of the islands after the Argentinian president, Javier Milei, said his country needed to take them back.