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The United States is a “reliable ally”, a senior Government minister has insisted, amid Donald Trump’s threats to take over Greenland.

Work and Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden was requested by Sky News in regards to the US President after he kicked off 2026 with annexation proposals for the Arctic island and his administration’s seize of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro.

Mr McFadden replied: “The United States is a reliable ally. We believe that to be the case, we see that every day.

“But we additionally know the world is altering and we have to step up, and Europe’s obtained to step up, and, really, President Trump might have his personal fashion, he isn’t the primary US President to say that.

“I think the thing that we’ve really got to understand about the world is that hard and soft power have to go together.”