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.

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    If it were an option, then it might be better to selfishly keep good relations with the US. But Trump will always try to extract as much as possible, regardless of ‘good relations’. So the choice is really between helping Ukraine or not, knowing the US will be the same either way.

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      it might be better to selfishly keep good relations with the US

      Or the UK could prioritise good relations with Europe instead, which the public seems to support (source for below image):

      Chart showing the results of a YouGov poll, asking Brits which trading partner should be the UK's biggest priority. The top result in the poll was the EU - 46% of Brits thought the EU should be the UK's biggest trade priority. The next result was the US - 21% of Brits thought the US should be the UK's biggest trade priority. More details about the poll can be seen at the source link to The Guardian provided in this post.

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        You say Europe but your chart says the EU. Let’s not conflate the two.

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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.

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          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.