Politicians condemn Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on Nato countries deploying troops to the Danish territory
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The UK’s stance on Greenland is “non-negotiable”, Lisa Nandy, the culture secretary, has insisted, as European nations pushed back strongly against Donald Trump’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on the UK and seven other countries.
After Keir Starmer called Trump’s imposition of the tariffs “completely wrong”, with the president saying they would rise to 25% if European nations did not agree a US plan to buy Greenland, Nandy refused to say if or how the UK would respond.
But asked if the UK would never accept the US idea, Nandy told Sky News: “Yes, of course.” She went on: “The prime minister was very clear last night that we believe that this decision on tariffs is completely wrong. The future of Greenland is for the people of Greenland and the people of the kingdom of Denmark to determine and for them alone.
