Should the UK renegotiate its US trade deal to match the EU's new 10% tariff rate across all sectors?

Ten votes is not a sample the UK can lean on, but the shape of it is telling. Six of ten wanted London to go back to Washington and match the EU's new 10% floor across the board, leaving four content with the deal as struck last year — and nobody on either side troubled themselves to make the case in writing, an unusual silence for a question with real losers in bikes, clothing, chemicals and drinks.

That silence is itself a kind of answer. This is a technical grievance — a few points of tariff differential eating into specific export sectors — rather than a culture-war flashpoint, and it drew a small, quiet vote rather than the noisy turnout that trade and Brexit-adjacent questions usually attract on this platform. The whisky carve-out, the one clear UK win in the current arrangement, went unmentioned entirely, suggesting voters were weighing the deal's losers rather than its winners.

The result sits squarely in the post-Brexit pattern of the UK triangulating between Washington and Brussels, forever re-litigating deals struck in one negotiating window against terms won in another — this time with a slim majority saying the UK should not settle for worse terms than its neighbours, even if too few said why.