The foreign secretary has used his first major speech of 2025 to go after the Putin’s aggression in tearing up the world order and back Trump’s demands for significant increases in defence spending

The foreign secretary talks up UK-US relations - but clear divisions with the incoming president remain.

David Lammy has refused to condemn Donald Trump for suggesting he could use military force to take over Greenland. The president-elect made the warning in a rambling press conference earlier this week in which he also said America could seize control of the Panama Canal.

With Russia on the march and the end of post-Cold War peace, David Lammy has argued that Europe’s defence spending must rise. The foreign secretary said for the UK to be “taken seriously… we must put our money where our mouth is” in his first major speech of 2025.

It’s not going to happen’ - Foreign secretary also hit back at Trump’s demands that the UK double its defence spending to 5 per cent of GDP

The Foreign Secretary has called on the incoming US president to say how he will pay for a massive increase in defence spending.

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Thursday refused to condemn president-elect Donald Trump's Greenland ambitions while insisting that the US acquiring the self-governing Danish territory is "not going to happen".

The US president-elect has said he cannot assure the world he would not use military force to gain Greenland and the Panama Canal.

Cold War peace is well and truly over” as he used his first major speech of 2025 to take aim at Vladimir Putin and Russian aggression.The foreign secretary threw his weight behind demands by Donald Trump that Nato allies significantly increase their spending on defence,

The British and French leaders dine at Chequers residence in England. Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron close ranks this Thursday against the rhetoric of Donald Trump and Elon Musk at a dinner at the Chequers residence,

NATO's current target for members' defense spending is 2 percent of their country's GDP. Trump has repeatedly called on the alliance to increase this amount.