Starmer says ‘British pragmatism’ helped resolve Greenland crisis as he welcomes Trump U-turn – UK politics live

PM says he hopes focus will now shift to the ‘hard yards’ of maintaining security in the ArcticAt Davos Donald Trump is now launching his board of peace. Graeme Wearden is covering it on our Davos live blog.Keir Starmer has welcomed Donald Trump’s decision to drop his threat to impose tariffs on the UK and some other Nato countries that opposed his plan to buy Greenland, saying “British pragmatism” helped to resolve the crisis.I think you will have noticed that the last few days have been incredibly serious in relation to big things happening on the world stage.And you may have seen but it is a good thing that yesterday the threat of tariffs against the United Kingdom was lifted, and now we can start hard yards and finding a way forward on security in the Arctic, which may seem a long way away, pretty remote, but actually it does matter to all of us in terms of the safety and security of our country. Continue reading...