President Donald Trump speaks to reporters after signing a spending bill that ends a partial shutdown of the federal government in the Oval Office of the White House, Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2026, in Washington. via Associated PressDonald Trump has now backed Keir Starmer’s Chagos deal once again just weeks after attacking it. AdvertisementBut, after a phone call with the prime minister on Thursday, Trump U-turned again, and now seems much more at ease with the plan. In a post on TruthSocial, he wrote: “I understand that the deal prime minister Starmer has made, according to many, the best he could make. And, once Trump had supposedly worked up a “framework of a future deal” with Nato over Greenland, he dropped the tariff threat.

Source: Huffington Post February 05, 2026 19:44 UTC