JD Vance criticised Europe again as he explained today why the Trump administration believes Greenland is "critical" to the security of the US. The US vice president said Europe and Denmark have "not done a good job" in making the world's largest island secure in the event of "a nuclear missile".

He told Fox News: "People do not realise that the entire missile defence infrastructure is partially dependent on Greenland. If God forbid the Russians and the Chinese – not saying they’re going to – but if, God forbid, somebody launched a nuclear missile into our continent, they launched a nuclear missile at Europe, Greenland is a critical part of that missile defence.

"So you ask yourself, ‘have the Europeans, have the Danes done a proper job of securing Greenland and of making sure it can continue to serve as an anchor for world security and missile defence?’ And the answer is obviously they haven’t."

MORE TO FOLLOW...