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Labour’s Emily Thornberry branded Donald Trump’s claim that European soldiers in Afghanistan avoided the frontlines as an “absolute insult”.

The chair of the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee said she was “proud” the UK helped stand up to him to the US President over Greenland.

Dame Emily said: “It’s not a mistake. It’s so much more than a mistake. It’s an aboslute insult. It’s an insult to 457 families who lost someone in Afghanistan. How dare he say we weren’t on the frontline? How dare he! We have always been there. Whenever the American have wanted us, we have always been there.”

She added: “How dare this man who’s never seen any action, who somehow or other when there was a draft for everybody else in the United States managed to avoid it, and yet now is commander in chief and knows nothing about how it is that america has been defended. I mean, seriously, it’s an absolute insult.”

She said we have had a “very shocking few days” amid Trump’s attack on Greenland.

There have been repeated threats from the US Presient to seize mineral-rich Greenland, which belongs to Denmark.

Dame Emily called Mr Trump’s behaviour “bullying” and “rude”.

She also accused of of “deliberately trying to undermine us and NATO”.

The Prime Minister and his Danish counterpart Mette Frederiksen met at Chequers, a day after the US president dropped tariff threats against European nations opposed to his ambitions to take over the mineral-rich island.

Mr Trump rowed back his threats to slap new 10% tariffs on allies rejecting his Greenland demands after a meeting with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte on the fringes of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.

The US president said the pair “formed the framework of a future deal” for security in the Arctic region.

The terms of any potential agreement remain unclear.