Transcript: EU or US? UK plays piggy in the middle

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : And, you know, Trump just sees that, as Biden did, in fact, as a protectionist tariff.
58% : The question is, when Trump says I want 100
52% : Pete, do you think that there is a sense in which Trump could demand loyalty from the UK on China, sort of outside the basic tariffs?
52% : This is even before Trump.
49% : He thinks that the UK should try and use an offer on security to sort of tighten our inward investment screening or else toughen up our export controls frankly focused on China in order to try and win some sort of concession on trade from Trump.
48% : You know, in theory, last time Trump was in office we were still a member of the EU, so we were in that basket.
46% : This time, we have a stable trade deal with the EU, but we also have autonomy and that could make it much more difficult if Trump starts to come with a shopping list of things that he wants in order to avoid the blanket tariffs which he's promised.
46% : And Matt Gaetz is very, very serious about pursuing enemies of Trump.
44% : Lucy FisherI mean, Robert, there is this wide spectrum of responses in Westminster, isn't there, ranging from optimism, boosterism about potentially there being opportunities for the UK, right to sort of paranoia, fear and loathing about what might happen under Trump?Robert ShrimsleyYeah.
40% : And whether we can really convince the EU that we're still their best buddies when we're trying to get a sweetheart deal with Trump and they're getting hammered, probably the Germans and the Italians getting hammered with tariffs, that's gonna be tricky.
39% : And the UK's problem is gonna be that we're trying to crystallise our reset with the EU just at the moment as Trump's getting his feet under the desk in the Oval Office.
39% : And she noted that the last time British government was dealing with Trump, this piece was just describing there, overall trade volumes between the UK and the US increased.
37% : I mean, who knows what Trump's gonna do.
36% : By the way, also don't forget that Trump did a deal with China in his last presidency.
35% : So that's just one example of where our cheap green technology suddenly comes under threat because we've got to curry favour with Trump.
33% : Because if we're ducking and diving to avoid tariffs with Trump and we're not standing with the EU in retaliation to whatever Trump tariffs are imposed on Brussels, it'd be quite hard then to come along to the reset, which is supposed to be starting in the first quarter of next year, and say that we're all in, we're all in with you.
27% : Peter FosterThe danger is that Trump makes it binary, and then we have to make a choice about actually which camp are we in.
26% : Peter FosterI think Trump is quite agnostic on the security side.
24% : So the flip side of it is if Trump overcooks it, right; if Farage does get in Trump and the demands are too strong then . . . 
23% : Lucy FisherGeorge, you're aware of a flurry of activity in the corridors of Whitehall to try and work out how to avoid these tariffs that Trump is threatening to impose on all US imports into the US.
20% : Peter FosterI mean, again, all of this depends where we land on the spectrum of how hard Trump is gonna push it.

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