Yesterday in Parliament 22 Jan 2026
Yesterday in Parliament
BBC
3.9 • 10 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2026
⏱️ 5 minutes
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President Trump cast a long shadow over PMQs
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:05.5 | Hello, I'm Alicia McCarthy. |
| 0:07.9 | Thanks for downloading the yesterday in Parliament podcast for Wednesday the 21st of January. |
| 0:13.4 | He may have been hundreds of miles away, but the US President Donald Trump cast a long shadow over Prime Minister's questions. |
| 0:23.1 | With pronouncements on taking over Greenland and condemnation of the UK's Chegos Islands deal, Donald Trump had already created |
| 0:29.0 | plenty of political turbulence and it was only Wednesday. As everyone waited for the US President |
| 0:34.7 | to arrive at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss |
| 0:37.5 | City of Davos, the Conservative leader, Kemi Badenock, wanted to know how Sekeir Stama's |
| 0:43.0 | recent chats with Donald Trump had gone. |
| 0:45.5 | The Prime Minister and I agree. |
| 0:48.2 | The future of Greenland should only be decided by the people of Greenland. |
| 0:54.3 | When the Prime Minister made this point to President Trump on Monday, did the President |
| 0:59.5 | agree or disagree? |
| 1:01.5 | Donald Trump reckons if he doesn't take control of Greenland, Russia or China will. |
| 1:06.6 | And he'd left European leaders aghast with a threat to slap whacking taxes on countries, |
| 1:12.1 | including the UK, that don't support his plan. |
| 1:15.7 | Kier Stama said the future of Greenland was for it and Denmark to decide, |
| 1:20.0 | and that threat of trade tariffs was completely wrong, |
| 1:23.0 | and he beefed up his language to say so. |
| 1:25.8 | I will not yield. |
| 1:27.9 | Britain will not yield on our principles and values |
| 1:32.4 | about the future of Greenland under threats of tariffs. |
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