Transcript: Britain's role in a changing Europe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : So it could actually help the UK if Trump returns to power.
54% : He's not ruled out dynamic alignment with EU rules, whereby Britain would follow EU rules and regulations as they change in the EU side.
54% : She's come with a big dossier very well like sanctions against Russia, starting membership talks with Ukraine for EU accession, and some of the Covid stuff, the vaccines business to deal with.
53% : For the British point of view, that would allow us to have a little bit of influence in EU discussions, that would allow us to learn what's going on in the room and it would allow us to help build and forge friendships and alliances.
48% : But if she flips over to the other side, then you do have a group of four or five European countries that would be sympathetic to Trump, not just Hungary, but possibly the Netherlands in some respects, France if Marine Le Pen wins in 2027, possibly Italy, Slovakia, maybe one or two other countries too.
46% : Well, yes, but I think the majority of EU governments are clearly going to be centrist: centre left, centre right or centre centre liberal.
39% : I think the idea in EU governments is this: there'll be a balance between Kaja Kallas, who will be very hard on Russia, who knows eastern Europe and the Russian-speaking world very well coming from Estonia.
37% : And if Trump comes back and really worries the centrist mainstream of European politics, it'll make European governments think, gosh, we need to hug the British close.
36% : But in one respect, the return of Trump could help Keir Starmer, I think assuming that the far right don't take over the French state and Le Pen doesn't win the French presidency, because people are very worried about the way the world is going.

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