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Starmer’s impossible choice: Trump’s America or reset with Europe

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The big geopolitical and economic choice facing Britain is only just coming into view.

In doing so, it threatens to tear the UK ’s politics apart anew.

Analysis by the Centre for European Reform suggests that the UK economy is around 5.5pc smaller as a result of leaving the EU than it otherwise would have been.

Ignacio Garcia Bercero said the UK ’s natural self interest lay with Europe , not the US .

Both Britain and Europe believe strongly in multilateralism and the rules based international order repudiated by Trump .

Canada , Mexico and Columbia all have free trade deals with the US , yet they’ve been first to be threatened with punitive tariffs.