The president-elect's refusal to rule out military action against Greenland was, Lammy said, an example of his "destabilising" rhetoric. He said Trump was focused on Arctic security but such an attack by one member of Nato on another was "simply not going to happen".

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

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.

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

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.

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 US president-elect has said he cannot assure the world he would not use military force to gain Greenland and the Panama Canal.

NATO's current target for members' defense spending is 2 percent of their country's GDP. Trump has repeatedly called on the alliance to increase this amount.

The Supreme Court has ruled that former Bethnal Green schoolgirl Shamima Begum, 24, will not be allowed to challenge the decision to revoke her British citizenship

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".