India, Jan. 20 -- In a stinging rebuke of American foreign policy, a prominent UK leader labeled US President Donald Trump an "international gangster", a "bully", and "the most corrupt president the United States has ever seen", speaking in the country's parliament.

Liberal Democrat Ed Davey, leader of the third-largest party in the UK parliament, was reacting to a series of trade tariff-linked threats aimed at the United Kingdom and its European allies by Trump, who is going after countries opposing his plan to "buy" or annex Greenland from Denmark.

Addressing the government in a session marked by high tension, Ed Davey described the current global diplomatic climate as an "incredibly grave moment".

He accused the American president o...