Tag: rhetoric
Is Trump’s rhetoric on Greenland, Canada and Panama Canal a ‘Madman Strategy’?
By Scott Neuman President-elect Donald Trump, who is days away from taking office, has wasted no time in returning to center stage in U.S. foreign policy, reprising his hallmark blend of bombastic rhetoric and threats that keep both friend and foe guessing. His undiplomatic talk in recent days of reclaiming the Panama Canal — and…
Grooming gang rhetoric risks inciting mass violence, says Wes Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary points to New Zealand mosque massacre and says entire communities must not be tarred with the same brush The use of inflammatory language over grooming gangs risks vilifying entire communities and could lead to atrocities such as the mosque massacre in New Zealand that killed more than 50 people, the health secretary…
Lammy challenges Trump’s rhetoric days before White House return
When David Lammy is asked about the new government’s relations with the incoming US administration, he likes to talk about the dinner he and the prime minister had with Donald Trump in New York last September. “We had a very good meal,” the foreign secretary said on Thursday. “We had a long time to discuss…
David Lammy says Trump’s rhetoric can be ‘destabilising’ but threat to invade Greenland won’t happen – UK politics live
Good morning. For the first time in six months, David Lammy, the foreign secretary, was put up by No 10 to do the morning broadcast interview round – ahead of a speech he is giving later. At PMQs yesterday, perhaps surprisingly, Keir Starmer was not asked about Donald Trump’s suggestion that he might invade Greenland,…