Keir Starmer

Starmer warned of Labour rebellion if leasehold reforms watered down

Former minister Justin Madders tells the BBC Labour must stick to its pledge to cap ground rents.

The row over Greenland risked uprooting the PM's carefully cultivated relationship with the US president.

Sir Keir says President Trump criticised the UK's Chagos Islands deal in order to exert pressure on the PM.

Behind the scenes, Sir Keir had been coming under greater pressure to change his approach to the president.

Trump's volatile trade policy has thrown the world economy into chaos, and put some US prices up.

The US president says it is "another in a very long line of National Security reasons why Greenland has to be acquired".

BBC chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman shares his analysis.

The prime minister has built his foreign policy around being seen as a trustworthy ally of the US president.

Sir Keir Starmer said the situation was "very serious" and that right approach was through "calm discussion".

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