{"id":385635,"date":"2026-01-23T07:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385635\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T07:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T07:01:09","slug":"uk-concerns-made-trump-back-down-on-greenland-says-david-lammy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/385635\/","title":{"rendered":"UK concerns made Trump back down on Greenland, says David Lammy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lammy, a former foreign secretary who is close to US vice-president JD Vance, said he had never believed the US would use military force to annex the Danish territory.<\/p>\n

“I said years ago that was never, ever going to happen,” he told Political Thinking, in an interview recorded on Thursday. Lammy said in January last year<\/a>, before his second term began, that Trump would not try to take Greenland by force.<\/p>\n

Lammy told Nick Robinson that Trump’s change of approach this week was a “consequence” of the UK making its position on the need to respect international law and the will of fellow Nato allies “absolutely crystal clear”.<\/p>\n

“Let’s remember what has actually happened. Donald Trump stepped back from any suggestion of force, and he stepped back from the use of tariffs,” he added.<\/p>\n

“Why? Because his close friend the United Kingdom and European partners expressed their displeasure, and he has stepped back.<\/p>\n

“What’s really gone on is actually our great ally, the United States, despite the noise, has responded to our concerns.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lammy, a former foreign secretary who is close to US vice-president JD Vance, said he had never believed…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-385635","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\/385635","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=385635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}