{"id":522612,"date":"2026-04-10T03:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522612\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T03:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T03:09:08","slug":"british-sentiment-toward-trumps-us-plunges-amid-iran-war-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/522612\/","title":{"rendered":"British sentiment toward Trump\u2019s US plunges amid Iran war \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The latest poll was conducted from Apr. 3 to Apr. 7, surveying more than 2,000 respondents each from Canada, U.K., France and Germany. It comes as transatlantic relations sour further over British Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s refusal to support U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran. Starmer has allowed the use of British airbases for defensive purposes, but has continued to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/donald-trump-dunked-keir-starmer-over-iran-war\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">receive regular criticism<\/a> from a president he was at pains to build links with.<\/p>\n<p>The latest numbers show nearly two thirds (65 percent) of British adults now think America tends to create problems for other countries, up from 46 percent in December. Just 22 percent now think the United States tends toward solving the problems of other nations, down from 35 percent late last year.<\/p>\n<p>More than half (57 percent) of Brits said America challenges its allies around the world \u2014 up from 41 percent in December \u2014 compared to just 27 percent who say the U.S. supports allies, down from 40 percent in December.<\/p>\n<p>Almost half (49 percent) of Brits now say the U.S. cannot be depended upon in a crisis, a rise on the 36 percent logged in December.<\/p>\n<p>Britain, which has long prided itself on a \u201cspecial relationship\u201d with the U.S., had been an outlier among comparable nations \u2014 including France, Germany and Canada \u2014 on sentiment toward the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>All of those nations had more negative perspectives than the U.K. on the United States\u2019 place in the world when polled in December \u2014 but on some key measures the U.K. has seen similar shifts to its allies.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn just 5 months, the U.K. public has entirely lost faith in their main ally \u2014 right at the moment that the world seems historically unstable,\u201d said Public First\u2019s Head of Polling Seb Wride.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The latest poll was conducted from Apr. 3 to Apr. 7, surveying more than 2,000 respondents each from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":522613,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[138,625,626,459,140,141,819,59,145,57,58,585,9084,420,50,30298,56,54,158,55,636,637],"class_list":{"0":"post-522612","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-kingdom","8":"tag-americas","9":"tag-british-politics","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-defense","13":"tag-donald-trump","14":"tag-france","15":"tag-gb","16":"tag-germany","17":"tag-great-britain","18":"tag-greatbritain","19":"tag-iran","20":"tag-israel","21":"tag-keir-starmer","22":"tag-news","23":"tag-transatlantic-relations","24":"tag-uk","25":"tag-united-kingdom","26":"tag-united-states","27":"tag-unitedkingdom","28":"tag-war","29":"tag-westminster-bubble"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522612\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/522613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}