Sir Keir Starmer has warned Donald Trump that the future of Greenland must be decided by the people of the Arctic island and Denmark and not the US, in his first call to the White House since the US president’s intervention in Venezuela.
The UK prime minister had been criticised by political opponents for failing to speak to Trump since the president unleashed a wave of global uncertainty with his attack on Venezuela on Saturday and his renewed warnings that the US wanted to take control of Greenland.
But on Wednesday evening, Starmer eventually spoke to Trump, in what was likely to have been a strained conversation between the two leaders who normally have warm relations.