Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey stresses there are “real concerns” over Donald Trump’s presidency as he is elected the 47th President of the United States.
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00:00You won't be surprised that the leader of the Liberal Democrats is not really very happy
00:04with this outcome. I think there will be lots of people out there who are worried and alarmed.
00:08Of course, we've got to work with the new President of the United States, but there
00:13are real concerns from security to the economy to climate change, and they need to be tackled.
00:18I've been really worried about his attitude to Putin and Russia, with respect to Ukraine
00:23in particular. That's why I think the UK needs to be part of a European-wide approach
00:31to make sure that we are supporting Ukraine, and I think there should be a summit called
00:35by Keir Starmer to do that. And I think we've also got to work with our European allies
00:41on trade. We've got to remove the damaging trade barriers put up by Boris Johnson, so
00:47the threat of tariffs and of a trade war that we've heard from President Trump, we have
00:52a protection for our economy.