UK could avoid the US tariffs the 'atrocity' EU is facing because Starmer has been 'nice', Trump suggests - UK politics live

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Starmer has dinner with EU leaders at the Palais d'Egmont in Brussels.
57% : With the European Union, it's $350bn deficit, so obviously something's going to take place there As is often the case with Trump, he managed to combine the language of a teenager ("very nice", "getting along very well") with the menace of a gangster.
55% : Q: Prime Minister wants a closer relationship with the EU.
47% : At some point we will get some sort of response from Starmer, and from EU leaders, although - in public, at least, it may be very constrained and limited.
40% : But European Union is really out of line.
39% : Starmer is about to find out whether this Brexit scenario turns out to be viable, whether, in a trade war between the US and the EU, Britain can avoid the US tariffs that Trump plans to impose on the EU while similtaneously achieving Labour's goal of improving UK-EU trade by easing some of the trade barriers that have been in place since Brexit.
35% : Keir Starmer will tonight become the first British PM to attend a European Council meeting (a dinner, as part of an informal EU summit), and it could not have come at a more difficult time, because it is happening just as Donald Trump is unleashing tariff warfare.
26% : In comments yesterday, Trump said that he was not ruling out tariffs on the UK, but he implied that he was trying to peel Britain away from the EU, whom he described as "an atrocity".
25% : [At this point Trump appears to correct himself, having said UK when he appears to have meant the EU.]

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