The UK's position on Greenland's future is 'non-negotiable', Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has insisted, as European nations push back against Donald Trump's threat to impose 10% tariffs on Nato allies that have deployed troops to the island.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer called the tariffs 'completely wrong' after Trump said they would rise to 25% if European countries did not agree to a US plan to purchase Greenland. Nandy refused to say how the UK would retaliate but stressed that Greenland's future is for its people and Denmark to decide.
Trump posted on Truth Social that tariffs would apply from 1 February to Nato members including the UK, France and Germany, and would increase to 25% by 1 June if no deal to buy Greenland was reached. He claimed the situation was 'very dangerous for the safety, security and survival of our planet'.
Opposition leaders condemned the move. Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch said the tariffs were 'completely wrong' and would burden UK businesses. Liberal Democrat leader Ed Davey urged Starmer to stand firm against the 'bully in the White House' and work with allies to make Trump back down.
Nandy declined to speculate on retaliatory measures, saying the UK would have conversations with US counterparts and that it was in both nations' interests to work together rather than start a 'war of words'.
