{"id":376768,"date":"2026-01-18T11:16:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376768\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:16:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:16:07","slug":"greenlands-future-must-be-decided-by-its-people-says-lisa-nandy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/376768\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenland’s future must be decided by its people, says Lisa Nandy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Keir Starmer has called the move “completely wrong”<\/a> and said his government would be “pursuing this directly with the US administration”.<\/p>\n

The White House has in recent weeks intensified calls for a US takeover of the autonomous Danish territory, which Trump says is critical for US security. He has not ruled out taking it by force.<\/p>\n

The plan would see a 10% tariff on goods from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland from 1 February, which could later rise to 25%, until a deal was struck for a US takeover of Greenland.<\/p>\n

Nandy said Trump will often “express a very strong view” before encouraging “dialogue”.<\/p>\n

“He welcomes difference of opinion… and what often happens is a negotiation,” she said.<\/p>\n

Asked whether she believed Trump would row back on the tariffs, Nandy said: “I think this is actually a really serious issue, and I think it deserves a far more adult debate than us threatening the United States, and the United States threatening us.”<\/p>\n

“The one thing that we won’t do is compromise on our position” that Greenland’s future was for its people to decide, she added.<\/p>\n

“That is non-negotiable. That is the starting point for the conversation.”<\/p>\n

US House Speaker Mike Johnson told Laura Kuenssberg before the tariffs were announced that he accepted Greenland was “not our land” but that it had “strategic importance to us”.<\/p>\n

“I don’t foresee military intervention”, he said. “I think diplomatic channels is the way to go”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Keir Starmer has called the move “completely wrong” and said his government would be “pursuing this directly…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376769,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-376768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}