UK chancellor to hail benefits of free trade amid impending US protectionism

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

41% : Earlier this week, Reeves said she would make "strong representations" to the incoming Trump administration about the economic benefits of free trade.
37% : "Officials will be considering lots of different scenarios, but the position of the government is that we support free trade and support the trading relationship between the US and UK, it's a very strong, very fruitful relationship," he told Sky News.
37% : The return of Trump will raise fresh doubts over the likelihood of a post-Brexit UK-US trade deal ever being signed by London and Washington.
34% : But she will also express her belief that free trade has brought lasting benefits across the world.
27% : Trump has threatened to impose tariffs of up to 20 per cent on all imports into the US, with higher levies of 60 per cent on products coming from China, as a way to protect American manufacturers.

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