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SNP First Minister John Swinney has warned of “real difficulties” ahead if US President-elect Trump follows through on policy.
The First Minister offered Mr Trump his “congratulations” on X (formerly Twitter), adding: “We will stand fast in support of our values of fairness, democracy and equality — ideals America was built on.”
But speaking of Mr Trump — whose mother hailed from the Western Isles — on a later visit to a distillery, the First Minister warned of the need to continue the war in Ukraine “to repel the Russian aggression,” before turning to import tariffs on Scotch levied by the last Trump administration.
US tariffs have had Von der Leyen bowing in submission, while comments from the former European Central Bank leader call for more European political integration and less individual state sovereignty. All this adds up to more pain and austerity ahead, argues NICK WRIGHT
