{"id":84725,"date":"2025-05-08T13:36:21","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84725\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:36:21","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:36:21","slug":"donald-trump-is-bigger-threat-to-uk-than-terrorists-some-brits-think-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/84725\/","title":{"rendered":"Donald Trump is bigger threat to UK than terrorists, some Brits think \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The polling also showed almost half of Brits thought Trump would worsen the U.K. economy (47 percent) while 45 percent thought the president would damage Britain\u2019s safety and security.<\/p>\n

Nearly three in 10 (29 percent) voters also said one of the worst things about Reform UK leader Nigel Farage, who achieved a successful set of local election results last week<\/a>, was his closeness to Trump.<\/p>\n

The U.S. president has repeatedly polled poorly<\/a> with British voters and protests are expected ahead of his second state visit.<\/p>\n

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer has repeatedly stressed his government would not choose between good relations with the U.S. or EU, while the White House is poised to announce a trade agreement<\/a> with Britain on Thursday.<\/p>\n

However, the report showed 62 percent of all Britons, including two-thirds (67 percent) of Labour\u2019s 2024 voters and 60 percent of Labour Leave voters, backed joining forces with the EU against \u201cunpredictable partners\u201d in a forced choice against doubling down on U.S. relations.<\/p>\n

Exactly half (50 percent) of Labour to Reform UK switchers saw the EU as the U.K.\u2019s most trustworthy ally, with 75 percent of them supporting \u201csome\u201d or \u201ca lot\u201d of cooperation on trade and the economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The polling also showed almost half of Brits thought Trump would worsen the U.K. economy (47 percent) while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1193,32,13,807,12,384,14,15,49,333,1202],"class_list":{"0":"post-84725","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-british-politics","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-keir-starmer","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-nigel-farage","14":"tag-top-stories","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-vladimir-putin","18":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114472483947676410","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725","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=84725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}