{"id":46008,"date":"2025-04-24T07:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46008\/"},"modified":"2025-04-24T07:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-24T07:24:14","slug":"is-donald-trump-about-to-wreck-brexit-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/46008\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Donald Trump about to wreck Brexit? \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI don\u2019t see any special deal coming for the U.K,\u201d Kim Darroch, former U.K. ambassador to Washington,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Steven_Swinford\/status\/1855895894207480131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told the Times<\/a>. Trump\u2019s moves \u201cwill be quite a challenge for the U.K,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Unless the U.K. can secure some kind of carve-out from Trump\u2019s blanket tariffs, Starmer will likely resist pressure to think again about the EU reset. That\u2019s music to the ears of some.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Politically suicidal\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got an isolationist president-elect in the United States,\u201d Richard Foord, a Liberal Democrat MP, told a gathering of EU citizens in London days after the U.S. election result. \u201c I am concerned that Trump\u2019s comments during the election campaign are not mere campaign slogans, but are how he intends to govern. These are reasons, for me, why we need more Europe in the U.K.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/GettyImages-2181761436-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5702979\"  \/>Conservative opposition leader Kemi Badenoch this week urged the government not to turn away from Washington. | Benjamin Cremel\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Nick Harvey, a former armed forces minister in ex-PM David Cameron\u2019s 2010-2015 coalition government, said the U.K. would pay a price if it didn\u2019t start looking toward Brussels. \u201cWe cannot be the 51st state of America \u2014 it makes no sense geographically, politically or industrially,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we attach ourselves pathetically to their coat-tails, instead of being a major player in Europe\u2019s defense, we will pay a price for that folly.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harvey, now chief executive of the European Movement U.K., an independent pressure group, argues that failing to link up with the EU would be \u201cpotentially suicidal both militarily and economically.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI don\u2019t see any special deal coming for the U.K,\u201d Kim Darroch, former U.K. ambassador to Washington,\u00a0told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[802,748,1194,6215,6852,23522,473,32,33,35,2000,299,5187,1699,1214,39,4884,1195,2348,1197,807,809,46,332,811,6861,479,1201,1219,25336,16,657,15,771,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-46008","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-brexit","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-budget","11":"tag-cooperation","12":"tag-customs-union","13":"tag-david-cameron","14":"tag-defense","15":"tag-donald-trump","16":"tag-elections","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-exports","23":"tag-fuels","24":"tag-great-britain","25":"tag-growth","26":"tag-history","27":"tag-investment","28":"tag-keir-starmer","29":"tag-negotiations","30":"tag-policy","31":"tag-russia","32":"tag-security","33":"tag-single-market","34":"tag-tariffs","35":"tag-trade","36":"tag-trade-war","37":"tag-u-s-elections","38":"tag-uk","39":"tag-ukraine","40":"tag-united-kingdom","41":"tag-war","42":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114391748902491523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}