Keir Starmer has shrugged off Donald Trump’s threat to leave Nato by defending the alliance and insisting Britain will not be joining the Iran war.

The US president told The Telegraph America’s membership within the organisation is “beyond reconsideration” after his allies refused to back his offensive in the Middle East.

Trump said: “I was never swayed by Nato. I always knew they were a paper tiger, and Putin knows that too, by the way.”

He expressed disbelief that his allies have not backed the US’s attacks, saying: “Beyond not being there, it was actually hard to believe. And I didn’t do a big sale. I just said, ‘Hey’, you know, I didn’t insist too much. I just think it should be automatic.

“We’ve been there automatically, including Ukraine. Ukraine wasn’t our problem. It was a test, and we were there for them, and we would always have been there for them. They weren’t there for us.”

“You don’t even have a navy,” the president said of the UK. “You’re too old and had aircraft carriers that didn’t work.”

Asked if he thinks Starmer should spend more on defence, the president said: “I’m not going to tell him what to do. He can do whatever he wants. It doesn’t matter.

“All Starmer wants is costly windmills that are driving your energy prices through the roof.”

But in a press conference on Wednesday, the prime minister made it clear that he still supports the defence alliance – and wrote off Trump’s attacks as “noise”.

He said: “Nato is the single most effective military alliance the world has ever seen, and it has kept us safe for many decades and we are fully committed to Nato.

“Whatever the pressure on me and others, whatever the noise, I am going to act in the British national interest in all the decisions that I make.

“That’s why I have been absolutely clear that this is not our war and we are not going to get dragged into it.

“I am equally clear that when it comes to defence and security and our economy future, we have to have closer ties with Europe.”

He confirmed that the government will soon announce a further summit with EU leaders as the UK works closer with its allies on the continent.

Chancellor Rachel Reeves has admitted she is “angry” at Donald Trump for starting the war in Iran.

Iranian troops have effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz ever since the US president decided to bomb Iran in late February.

Closing the major oil shipping lane has sent oil prices rising and rocked the global economy.

The president has attacked allies, particularly the UK, for not supporting his efforts.

He has called the Royal Navy “too old” and threatened to pull out of Nato after claiming the defence organisation has not given him “automatic” backing.

But Keir Starmer has held his own, reiterating on Wednesday that Britain would not be “dragged” into the conflict – while also warning that economic strains lie ahead.

Speaking to Radio 2′s Jeremy Vine, Reeves went further and said she was “angry” over Trump’s decision to bomb Iran.

She said: “I’m angry that Donald Trump has chosen to go to war in the Middle East – a war that there’s not a clear plan of how to get out of it.

“It’s why we didn’t want to enter this.

“Yes it will have implications for our economy, I get that.

“We are monitoring very closely what’s happening – trying to bring the oil and gas into the UK so that those supplies are there and get the prices down. We are monitoring the situation very carefully.”

“We are preparing – as you would expect me to be – for every single eventuality to make sure there alongside people, standing beside them, keeping costs down for everyone.”

The White House is trying to find an off-ramp to end the conflict and Trump claims Iran has asked for a ceasefire.

The president also told Reuters that the US will be “out of Iran pretty quickly” now Iran are supposedly “incapable” of using a nuclear weapon.

Iran has denied the claim and say the strait is “fully” under the control of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

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That’s right, dear reader – if you want to get your Easter egg shopping done, it’s getting down to the crunch (pun intended).

It’s now officially less than a week until Easter, and you’d best believe the eggs will be flying off the shelves.

But when it comes to picking the right one, we’re all virtually drowning in different choices.

Between half eggs, loaded eggs, traditional eggs, and eggs that aren’t even really shaped like eggs at all, it’s a mountainous task.

That’s why we at HuffPost UK have bravely put our blood sugar levels on the line to test as many supermarket eggs as we possibly could before Easter.

Want to know which we thought were the best? We’ve laid it all out right here for you, ranked by taste, texture, and value for money.

M&S Easter Eggs – Reviewed by Lifestyle Writer Amy Glover

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Lizzo has shared that she kept a promise to herself not to have sex until after winning a Grammy.

The Good As Hell singer is the latest guest on the Friends Keep Secrets podcast, where she disclosed that she was a “late bloomer” when it came to having sex for the first time.

Admitting that this was something she “lied about” for “a long time”, Lizzo eventually said that her first time was in 2020, when she was in her early 30s.

“Isn’t that crazy?” she remarked, admitting that sex was a subject she “wasn’t even thinking about” until that point.

The chart-topping star noted: “I promised myself when I was younger that I wouldn’t have sex until I won a Grammy.”

In January 2020, Lizzo picked up her first Grammy Awards in the Best Pop Solo Performance category for her hit Truth Hurts, Best Traditional R&B Performance for the album track Jerome and Best Urban Contemporary Album (now known as Best Progressive R&B Album) for her release Cuz I Love You.

She added during her podcast that while her first time “was not the night of the Grammys”, it was not too long afterwards.

Three years later, her signature song About Damn Time picked up Record Of The Year at the Grammys, one of the awards show’s top honours.

“I feel a weight off of my chest right now,” she said during her Friends Keep Secrets interview, recalling: “I was in a friend group of girls. We were all girling one night, and it was like, ‘Wait, Lizzo are you a virgin?’. I remember it was so embarrassing, I said, ‘I love the D’ – and it held me over for a little while.”

Lizzo also said that her first kiss was at the age of 21, after someone “forced it on me” at a New Year’s Eve celebration.

“It was religious for me too. Like, when we were teenagers at my church, we all made a pact that we wouldn’t do anything before marriage,” she claimed.

“And then, I was just so scared. Like, nobody wanted to kiss me.”

Last year, Lizzo released the mixtape My Face Hurts From Smiling, featuring guest appearances from SZA and Doja Cat, predominantly made up of rap performances.

She’s expected to release her third full-length album, titled Love In Real Life, later this year.

Easter is coming, and that means chocolate.

I’m eagerly anticipating unwrapping my stash of eggs. But according to the dentist and founder of Dimples, Dr Pippa Nicholls, some methods of eating them might affect our teeth worse than others.

“Naturally, many people assume it’s healthier to nibble a corner of an Easter egg or grab a handful of mini eggs throughout the day,” she said.

But if you want to look after your teeth, she advised an approach similar to Sweden’s lördagsgodis.

The Swedish tradition literally translates to “Saturday sweets”.

It limits the consumption of sweets to Saturday, when kids (and, presumably, sweet-toothed adults) can go to town on their favourite sugary snacks. The only catch is that they steer clear of candy for the rest of the week.

Designed to limit tooth decay, it seems to have had some benefits. Though a typical Swedish family of four consumes about a kilo of sweets a week, Swedish children have better dental health, on average, than their European counterparts.

“When it comes to your teeth, it’s actually much better to enjoy sweet treats in one sitting,” Dr Nicholls said.

It doesn’t have to be on Saturday, though, so long as you’re not constantly grazing on sweets throughout the day, which can damage your enamel.

Adopting the more Swedish approach “Gives your teeth time to recover, rather than constantly exposing them to sugar, and can even help prevent the cycle of grazing that often leads to eating more overall, particularly in children.”

The dentist added, “I always recommend [eating Easter eggs] at the end of a meal. Not only will it help crush the sweet treat craving, it also is when the saliva flow is increased and will be the most protective to your teeth.”

Yes. You might think that brushing your teeth immediately after consuming chocolate is the best way to flush the sugar away, but Dr Nicholls said that could actually backfire.

“Try to wait around 30 minutes before brushing your teeth after eating chocolate or sugary treats. Brushing immediately can actually strip minerals from the enamel while the mouth remains acidic, so giving your teeth time to rebalance helps protect them,” she explained.

Lastly, “Choosing dark chocolate or treats made with less refined sugars, such as unrefined cane or coconut sugar, can help reduce the amount of refined sugar available for bacteria in the mouth to feed on. Dark chocolate is also often more satisfying due to its rich flavour, which can naturally help limit how much we eat.”

The first of April is a dreaded day for many journalists. Our inboxes become rammed with suspicious press releases and eyebrow-raising anecdotes (and yes, these have been published as fact by some outlets in the past).

It seems we’re not the holiday’s only haters. Slate called April Fools “universally either hated or ignored”; a YouGov poll found that about half of respondents found the day annoying.

But why did it start in the first place?

We’re not actually sure. But there are three leading theories:

Some think April Fool’s Day dates to 1564 in France, when King Charles IX moved the official start of the year from Easter to January 1. Prior to this edict, most Christian countries’ calendar began from the movable date.

The date on which Easter falls is determined by the moon rather than preset schedules, but it usually falls in April. Those who clung to the old ways may have been called “April Fools”.

Another theory, also from France, suggests the tradition could come from the April 1 holiday of Poisson d’Avril (“April fish”). This centuries-old celebration now involves sticking a paper fish to people’s backs without them noticing and shouting “April fish” once they’ve been fooled.

A French poem dating to 1508 mentions an “April fish,” which might suggest that something similar to the trick has been happening for hundreds of years.

Then, there’s the English theory. A legend about King John says that when he tried to nab some of the land for Gotham in Nottinghamshire, the local residents came up with a plan to keep him out.

They played the “fool” when the king’s scouts came ahead of him to check the area out, pretending to do strange things like drowning fish to ensure the reports wouldn’t entice the King to stay.

But the event would have happened in the 13th century, while the first written reference to April fool’s day in the UK didn’t happen ’til 1686.