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Biden has previously expressed skepticism about Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Brexit. And some analysts believe that Britain outside the EU is becoming less important to the United States.
“If President Joe Biden wants to influence Europe in the future, he will call Paris and Berlin, not London,” Peter Rickett, a former UK government security adviser, told the BBC.
Britain has often seen as one of America’s door openers in the EU and the EU’s diplomatic messenger to the United States, but that same role disappears with Brexit.
Some observers also believe that with Brexit-skeptical Biden as president, pressure will increase on Johnson to conclude a trade deal with the EU in slow ongoing negotiations. This is partly to appear as a statesman to be reckoned with and partly to avoid a conflict with Biden, who with his Irish origin clearly warned Britain to do something that would jeopardize the Northern Ireland peace deal. It would be difficult for Britain to get a free trade agreement with the United States as well after Brexit.
But Prime Minister Boris Johnson is dismissing the fears:
– There is much more that unites us than what separates us, he says.
Another thing that is considered It could complicate the relationship between Biden and Johnson is that Johnson wrote in a 2016 debate article that one of the reasons then-US President Obama didn’t like Brexit was “the inherited disapproval of the British Empire by the average president. Kenyan “. A comment that Johnson’s critics considered had a racist undertone, something Johnson later flatly denied.
But a former Obama adviser wrote yesterday on social media that the circle around Biden has not forgotten Johnson’s comment.
British Prime Minister It also often highlights the strong ties on military and intelligence issues that the two countries have had in modern times. He will continue, he is convinced, and Johnson, who will host the main UN climate summit in Glasgow in a year, also sees a clear opportunity to work closely with Biden on the climate issue.
And US Senator Chris Coons, close to Joe Biden, some see Coons as the future secretary of state of the United States, gave Johnson some support for his hopes:
“What matters is the interests that unite us,” Chris Coons told the BBC.
