Biden-Truss Era Dawns With Caution, Doubt, Silence on Trade
- Truss eyes meeting like Johnson had after train ride last year
- Biden welcomes Truss with pleasantries, silence on key issues
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Joe Biden and the new UK leader, Liz Truss, are not entirely strangers. As foreign secretary, she sat in on an Oval Office meeting where the US president hosted her flamboyant predecessor.
Now, almost precisely one year after Boris Johnson hopped on Biden’s beloved Amtrak to tend to ties in Washington, Truss is seeking her own one-on-one. And the US president is so far giving only minimal encouragement to a leader casting herself in the mold of stalwart conservatives he scoffs at and who has bristled at his support for Ireland over Brexit.