Tories question ‘contact’ between UK and US over security

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Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride questions the amount of contact Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has had with Donald Trump over national security as the US president threatens to seize Greenland and warns of military action against Venezuela. Sir Mel says, “I would have expected the prime minister to have been there around the table”.   Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00I don't think there's been enough contact actually between the Prime Minister and the President

00:04and I would have expected a Prime Minister to have been in there and around the table in that sense

00:09in a more forthright manner but as to the principle here then it is certainly the case that

00:15a NATO ally in particular but any country in general that is a democracy that has sovereignty

00:20over its own territory I don't think we should be talking about other countries going in and

00:24taking that territory from them so that is that is the position of the Conservative Party as well.

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