Lib Dems hoping anti-Trump stance will give them boost in local elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : It called for a new customs union with the EU and a summit of Commonwealth nations to respond to US tariffs.
38% : With Tory voters in southern and home counties council areas in mind, the party says it fears an attempt to "sell out British farmers and weaken the UK's online safety laws" may be offered to Trump.
35% : Davey has used recent sessions of prime minister's questions to demand that Starmer take a tougher stand against Trump - which he has refused to do.
34% : Ed Davey's party believes it could overtake the Tories in terms of the number of councils under its control, partly by highlighting the reluctance of Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch to criticise Trump on issues such as tariffs, his dealings with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, over the war in Ukraine and his attitude to the Israel-Gaza crisis.
31% : The government must not use our high food and animal welfare standards or the online safety of our children as pawns in a negotiation to appease Donald Trump."
26% : With the other main parties, except the Greens, reluctant to censure Trump, and with most UK voters critical of him, the Lib Dems announced that they will call for a vote in parliament on any trade deal that the UK government tries to strike with the US president, as it attempts to avoid the worst of his tariffs and the developing global trade war.
23% : The Lib Dems' deputy leader, Daisy Cooper, said: "MPs must be given a say on any government deal with Donald Trump.
21% : Trump has also called for bans by the UK on imports of US beef, chicken and pork to be dropped, raising fears that products that do not meet UK food standards and that would undermine Britain's farmers, could flood into the country.

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