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The Guardian - UK
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Ed Davey calls on Keir Starmer to back Canada against Trump attacks

Ed Davey walks through a set of maple leaf curtains
Ed Davey at the Canadian-themed Maple Leaf pub in Covent Garden, London. Photograph: Jordan Pettitt/PA

The leader of the UK’s Liberal Democrats has called on the prime minister to publicly support Canada and oppose the “shocking attacks” on Canadian sovereignty, as the Trump administration further escalates its global trade war against longstanding allies.

Ed Davey, who leads the third largest political party in the UK, has called on Keir Starmer to travel to Canada in a show of support to the nation’s new prime minister, Mark Carney, as the commonwealth nation faces a generational crisis under Trump’s tariff war and suggestions that the country might become the 51st US state.

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