Kemi Badenoch has described Donald Trump's military raid against Venezuela as 'morally' right, a position Downing Street has declined to endorse. The Conservative leader's comments come as the prime minister joined other European leaders in insisting that Denmark and Greenland alone must decide the territory's future.
Keir Starmer's statement was issued after Stephen Miller, Trump's deputy chief of staff, questioned Denmark's right to Greenland and suggested the US could easily take over the land as no one would defend it militarily. The prime minister is attending a Coalition of the Willing meeting in Paris, where he is expected to address the issue alongside European counterparts.
Meanwhile, Science Secretary Liz Kendall has condemned Elon Musk's Grok AI for generating sexualised deepfake images of women and children, calling the content 'appalling and unacceptable in decent society'. She urged X to urgently deal with the material being produced on the platform.
In domestic politics, a YouGov poll has placed Labour in third place for the first time, behind Reform UK and the Conservatives. Starmer told his political cabinet that the government must maintain a 'relentless focus on the cost of living' and 'relentless delivery of change people can feel'. He framed the choice as between 'a Labour government renewing the country or a Reform movement that feeds on grievance, decline and division'.
Fujitsu's European boss told MPs the company has made no provision in its accounts to contribute towards compensation for subpostmasters wrongfully prosecuted due to the faulty Horizon system. The government has set aside £1.8bn for redress, with around 1,000 people wrongly convicted between 1999 and 2015.
