UK PM Starmer tells Trump tariffs on allies over Greenland are 'wrong'

BRITISH Prime Minister Keir Starmer spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (January 18) after talking to the leaders of Denmark, the EU and NATO, to say he believed "applying tariffs on allies for pursuing the collective security of NATO allies is wrong."

A Downing Street press release said Starmer held phone calls with Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. He then spoke to Trump.

This comes as President Trump vowed to place tariffs on eight European nations until the U.S. is allowed to buy Greenland.

All eight threatened countries, Denmark, Sweden, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Finland, along with Britain and Norway, already subject to U.S. tariffs of 10% and 15%, have sent small numbers of military personnel to Denmark's vast Arctic island, as the row with the United States over its future escalates.