UK’s Right-Wing Parties Criticize Trump Greenland Tariff Threat

Jan. 18, 2026, 11:46 AM UTC

Leaders from the right of the UK’s political spectrum delivered their sharpest criticism yet of US President Donald Trump, after he threatened tariffs on European allies unless a deal is reached for the US to buy Greenland from the Kingdom of Denmark.

Reform UK’s Deputy Leader Richard Tice said Trump “has got it wrong,” as he urged Prime Minister Keir Starmer to start negotiations with the US. “The objective of protecting Greenland for all NATO allies is correct — the way that he’s going about it is totally wrong,” Tice told the BBC in an interview on Sunday, speaking ...

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