Keir Starmer tried to use Prime Minister’s Questions today to deliver what he hoped was a tough new line on Donald Trump. It wasn’t quite a Love, Actually moment – mercifully; more of an ‘Er, actually’, but still.

In his first answer to Kemi Badenoch, Starmer told the chamber that:

I want to be clear with the House: I will not yield. Britain will not yield on our principles and values about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs, and that is my clear position.

The Prime Minister then added in his second answer that:

President Trump deployed words on Chagos yesterday that were different to his previous words of welcome and support when I met him in the White House. He deployed those words yesterday for the express purpose of putting pressure on me and Britain in relation to my values and principles on the future of Greenland. He wants me to yield on my position and I’m not going to do so. Given that was his express purpose, I’m surprised the leader of the opposition has jumped on the bandwagon.

Starmer didn’t face much difficulty from his backbenchers in this........

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