First calls for a boycott of the World Cup over Trump’s Greenland threats

Donald Trump has become a figurehead of the World Cup this summer (Picture: Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Conservative and Labour MPs have become the first voices to call for a boycott of the World Cup this summer after Trump announced new tariffs on the UK.

Simon Hoare and Kate Osborne said the government needed to ‘push every button and pull every lever’ to show its objection to the US president’s threats towards Greenland.

Mr Hoare, a senior Conservative MP, told Metro that could include not going to the World Cup...