Protests have swept across Iran in the last couple of days, and reports suggest hundreds of people may now have been killed by the regime’s ensuing crackdown. On Sky News this morning, Transport Secretary Heidi Alexander said the UK government has ‘always viewed Iran as a hostile state’, and that the priority is to ‘stem the violence’ against protesters. She told Trevor Phillips that Iran has a ‘destabilising effect on the world’, and said the UK would like to see a peaceful transition where Iranians can enjoy ‘fundamental freedoms’ and ‘proper democratic values’.

Kemi Badenoch: ‘Greenland… is a second order issue’

President Trump has suggested the US needs to ‘own’ Greenland for national security reasons,  claiming he will do it ‘the easy way’ or ‘the hard way’. This week, Downing Street has held talks with European partners about sending troops to Greenland to shore up its defence and ease Trump’s security concerns. On the BBC, Laura Kuenssberg asked Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch if she would support this action. Badenoch said she does not have the ‘level of........

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