Rachel Reeves

Very good.

I mean, look, no one wants to see what's happening at the moment in terms of Greenland.

Recognize what the president said last night, criticizing decisions of a number of leaders.

But previously, the US administration, including Secretary of State Rubio, have supported what is happening in Diego Garcia because it's enabling

the UK, US military bases to stay open and to continue the vital work they do there for decades to come.

And so, you know, we're confident that that is the right decision and has had the support of the US administration.

Well, Denmark is a member of NATO, a very close ally of the UK and has been a very close ally of the United States.

Everybody recognises the importance of the Arctic and the High North and also the challenges that we face, the Western world, NATO faces in that part of the world.

We've just done a big deal with Norway to sell frigates to them, reflecting those sorts of threats.

No one is naive around the threats in the Arctic and the High North.

The question is how to face into those challenges.

We firmly believe in the UK and across Europe that we do that by NATO allies, by friends working together to secure the best outcomes, not unilaterally making decisions about another country.

All of our focus is on de-escalation, not in worst-case scenarios.

We have worked incredibly closely with President Trump the last year because we believe it's in our UK national interest to do so.

The strategic relationship between the US and the UK, the military and strategic partnership between our countries is more important than...

partnership between any two countries in the world and it's very important for the safety and security of the western world that that continues and we're determined that it will do so.

Similarly the fact that we were able last year to secure the economic partnership deal with the US and we continue work on the

the transatlantic markets work that we're doing at the moment to make it easier for our capital markets to be better integrated and firms listed in the UK and the US raising finance in each other's jurisdictions, greater collaboration when it comes to digital assets, all of that is in the UK's national interest and we'll continue to pursue our national interest

vigorously, but I don't think it's in anyone's interest to escalate tensions or to allow rhetoric to be a substitute for hard work and diplomacy.

I would just urge people to keep cool heads.