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What do British people think about tariffs?

Economic axis · 🇬🇧 the United Kingdom · measured continuously, published only above 100 responses.

No published British reading yet. DataRadio holds 0 British answers on this question and publishes a nation only at 100, so the honest answer today is that we do not know — 100 more answers are needed. The world reading is below, and it takes about a minute to make this page say something.

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Where the United Kingdom sits on economic

What is measured about the United Kingdom on this axis. These are facts about the country, not what its people think about them — that is the part of this page waiting on a sample.

Trade openness
World Bank national accounts · 2025
62.5%
somewhat below the middle
Foreign direct investment
IMF Balance of Payments · 2025
1.9%
close to the middle
Unemployment
ILO modelled estimate · 2025
4.7%
close to the middle

Ranked against every country with a published figure for the same series. Sources: World Bank World Development Indicators, which republish UN, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, SIPRI, IISS and UNODC data.

The questions that bear on tariffs

Asked as a forced choice between two written positions, in randomised order, with the sides flipped for half of respondents.

A · We should buy things from whoever makes them best and cheapest, wherever they are.
B · We should protect our own key industries, even if that means we pay more at home.
World, unweighted: 0% A · 100% neither · 0% B · n = 2
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of 100
A · Trade deals mostly help the rich and cost ordinary workers.
B · Trade deals help ordinary people more than they hurt them.
No answers recorded yet.
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Asked another way

The same question, as people put it.

  • The united kingdom public opinion on tariffs
  • Tariffs poll the united kingdom
  • What do british people think about tariffs
  • What percentage of british people support tariffs

Each has one answer on this page, and it is the same answer.