US election: What could Donald Trump's win mean for the UK?

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00:00In terms of how this affects us here in the UK, Keir Starmer and the Labour Party have got some

00:04fences to mend after a call went out to send the Labour Party supporters as volunteers to go and

00:11campaign for Harris. Keir Starmer has been pretty quick off the mark this morning in sending out

00:16a statement congratulating Donald Trump on his re-election, vowing to work with him over the

00:21next few years, and restating the central importance of what we like to think of as

00:28a special relationship between ourselves and the US. But there are headwinds there as well,

00:33I mean we're facing what we know is a very isolationist president in Trump, one who

00:40doesn't want to see America bound up in any more foreign wars or foreign adventures,

00:45who wants NATO countries to go their own way, and specifically there's going to be grave

00:50misgivings in Ukraine as to whether Trump means it when he says he's going to call a halt to the war

00:56there. Ukraine has been propped up by billions in USA, but also by aid from ourselves. Are we

01:02going to have to shoulder more of that burden now along with others in Europe? We'll have to see,

01:07but certainly there's no sort of real great secret to the fact that most people within

01:13the government on this side and across Europe would have preferred the stability of Harris, actually.