The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after the Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending
The foreign secretary talks up UK-US relations - but clear divisions with the incoming president remain.
David Lammy has refused to condemn Donald Trump for suggesting he could use military force to take over Greenland. The president-elect made the warning in a rambling press conference earlier this week in which he also said America could seize control of the Panama Canal.
With Russia on the march and the end of post-Cold War peace, David Lammy has argued that Europe’s defence spending must rise. The foreign secretary said for the UK to be “taken seriously… we must put our money where our mouth is” in his first major speech of 2025.
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Thursday refused to condemn president-elect Donald Trump's Greenland ambitions while insisting that the US acquiring the self-governing Danish territory is "not going to happen".
It’s not going to happen’ - Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP
The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.
Donald Trump's incoming counter-terrorism chief demanded the repatriation of British members of so-called IS being held in Syrian prison camps.
The British and French leaders dine at Chequers residence in England. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron close ranks this Thursday against the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a dinner at the Chequers residence,
Donald Trump wants the US to take over Greenland, the vast semi-autonomous Arctic island controlled by Denmark Denmark acknowledged on Thursday it had long neglected the defence of Greenland, a vast and strategically important Arctic island,
Juvenile jihadi bride Shamima Begum continues to fight to come back to the UK from a camp in northern Syria, but what happened to her two schoolgirl friends who joined ISIS alongside her?