Source is here: https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/survey-results/daily/2025/02/20/c33bd/1
That source allows you to see the results according to political affiliation. Pluralities of supporters of the Conservatives, Labour, and Lib Dems think that supporting Ukraine is more important.
The exception is Reform UK, whose supporters think that good relations with the USA are more important than supporting Ukraine.
Or the UK could prioritise good relations with Europe instead, which the public seems to support (source for below image):
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In this case they are analogous though, really.
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Why aren’t they? I understand the nuance (The UK is in Europe but not the EU), and in certain situations the distinction is important; the UK is not it’s own continent and Britons are Europeans.
But the two are (or have become) analogous when we’re talking about trade and politics.
Just because not all European countries are in the EU doesn’t mean that by saying you want better relations with the EU you want to tell Norway to go fuck themselves.
A valid point in general, but since this is from a uk trade perspective, there isn’t much in Europe but outside the EU. Norway, Switzerland and a few Balkan countries.
Fair point. Arguably the British public has a more negative view of the EU than Europe as a whole though. So if the British public wants to increase trade with the EU then they would probably be fine with increasing trade with Europe as a whole.
By the way I’m not including Russia when I say “Europe”. They don’t even consider themselves European - they consider themselves Eurasian.