PMQs LIVE: Keir Starmer faces Trump questions after Chagos row
Keir Starmer will face MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions today after Donald Trump launched explosive attacks and threats on the UK this week.
The US President yesterday published an extraordinary post branding Britain’s Chagos deal an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY” – despite the American administration previously welcoming the agreement.
Opposition politicians – including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch – seized on Mr Trump’s words and piled attacks on Mr Starmer over the deal. Ms Badenoch is likely to jump on the opportunity to criticise the decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius at PMQs.
It comes after Mr Starmer on Monday had welcomed Ms Badenoch’s support in the face of Mr Trump’s threats over Greenland. The US leader over the weekend threatened to slap a 10% tariff “on any and all goods” sent to the US by eight NATO allies including the UK from February 1, rising to 25% from June 1, until he gets a deal to buy Greenland. Ms Badenoch agreed the threats were wrong.
Other MPs are also likely to pile pressure on the PM over UK-US relations at PMQs, including avid Trump critic Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey.
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Trump’s fury at UK
Last night the US President said he was against the deal after blindsiding Downing Street with an extraordinary attack during an earlier Truth Social spree, where he posted an incendiary AI image showing him planting a US flag on Greenland. Another doctored picture showed European leaders, including Keir Starmer, in the Oval Office looking at a map where Greenland, Canada and Venezuela were all covered in the American flag. Mr Trump also leaked private texts sent to him by French President Emmanuel Macron and NATO’s Mark Rutte.
Keir Starmer to face Chagos questions
Keir Starmer will face MPs at Prime Minister’s Questions today after Donald Trump launched explosive attacks and threats on the UK this week.
The US President yesterday published an extraordinary post branding Britain’s Chagos deal an “act of GREAT STUPIDITY” – despite the American administration previously welcoming the agreement.
Opposition politicians – including Tory leader Kemi Badenoch – seized on Mr Trump’s words and piled attacks on Mr Starmer over the deal. Ms Badenoch is likely to jump on the opportunity to criticise the decision to cede the Chagos Islands to Mauritius at PMQs.
