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Isabel Hardman's Sunday Roundup - 18/01/2026

Coffee House Shots

The Spectator

Politics, Daily News, News

4.42.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Isabel Hardman presents highlights from Sunday morning's political shows.


Donald Trump says it's tariffs or a deal for Greenland. And Robert Jenrick is the latest in a growing list of Reform recruits.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectators' Daily Politics podcast. I'm Isabel Hardman,

0:11.9

and this is the Sunday Roundup. This week, Donald Trump escalates his Greenland rhetoric with the threat of tariffs,

0:19.7

and Robert Jenrick makes the latest high-profile

0:22.6

defection to reform. Donald Trump has threatened NATO allies with tariffs if a deal to buy

0:28.9

Greenland is not reached. After NATO countries sent troops to Greenland, the president called the

0:34.3

move a very dangerous situation for the safety, security and survival of our planet.

0:39.6

This morning on Sky News, Culture Secretary Lisa Nandi echoed Keir Stama's words by calling the tariff threats completely wrong.

0:46.9

I mean, the Prime Minister was very clear last night that we believe that this decision on tariffs is completely wrong.

0:54.6

The future of Greenland is for the people of Greenland

0:58.0

and the people of the Kingdom of Denmark to determine and for them alone.

1:02.6

We've been consistent about that.

1:04.1

That is a view that we've expressed to our friends and allies

1:07.0

in the American administration.

1:09.5

And we believe that at this moment, with the serious

1:12.8

challenges, especially in the Arctic region, affecting not just us, but the United States, Canada

1:18.9

and most of Europe, that we need to be working together in order to resolve them. It's why the

1:24.2

Foreign Secretary has just been in North Norway. She arrived home last

1:27.8

night, working with our Norwegian counterparts to strengthen our program there and to double the

1:33.9

number of Marines in the region. But we're working across the board with our allies and we need to

1:38.7

work together not to divide ourselves from one another. So we believe that these tariffs are the

1:43.3

wrong approach. So for the

1:46.6

all time, we would never agree to support an American purchase of Greenland? Well, we wouldn't

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