Keir Starmer says any decision on the future status of Greenland belongs to the people of Greenland and the Kingdom of Denmark alone, and has condemned Donald Trump’s threat to impose tariffs on the UK and seven other European nations as “completely wrong”. In a message to Norway’s prime minister, Trump said the country’s failure to award him the Nobel Peace Prize means he no longer has an “obligation to think purely of peace”. Labour’s U-turns have cost Britain £8.2bn, according to an analysis by the left-leaning Resolution Foundation think tank. The figure includes the government’s retreats on disability benefits, the winter fuel allowance and the two-child benefit cap, but doesn’t cover recent climbdowns on business rates for pubs and inheritance tax for farmers, which are expected to cost another £300m and £130m respectively. The longest tunnel on the HS2 route has been completed. The twin-bore 10-miler passes beneath the M25 before descending 80 metres under the Chilterns, and will, one day, allow trains to travel through it at more than 200mph.

For more than 75 years, it has been Russia’s “fondest dream” to split the alliance between the US and western Europe, says The Wall Street Journal. Donald Trump’s increasingly strident campaign to seize Greenland could make it happen. There are good reasons for Washington’s interest in the island – it’s in a strategically important position and has untapped reserves of rare-earth minerals. But the US already has “a high degree of access” and Denmark is happy to negotiate more. Trump’s “bullying imperialism” is totally counterproductive. It will imperil the trade deals he negotiated last year with the EU and the UK. It will drive America’s allies towards the Chinese: Canada’s Mark Carney “bent the knee” to Xi Jinping last week and Keir Starmer is heading to Beijing this month. And most important, of course, you can “say goodbye to Nato”.

Trump will win his battle for Greenland for the usual reason, says Wolfgang Münchau in UnHerd: Europe is too weak and divided. Can you really see Italy’s Giorgia Meloni ruining her relationship with the US president over “a few rocks of ice near the Arctic”? Will Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and his fellow populists in the Czech Republic and Slovakia ride to the rescue of their “liberal friends in Denmark”? Besides, the US president still has plenty more cards to play: he could sideline the EU and impose his own peace treaty on Ukraine, say, or switch off US intelligence sharing not just for Kyiv but for European Nato members too. As ever, Brussels will be praying that “someone or something” – the markets, Congress, anything – will stop Trump and negate the need for them to make any truly tough decisions. They need to drop this “delusion”. The only sensible strategy now is to accept the inevitable and try to “drive up the price”.