Would Joe Biden Be a Friend to Boris Johnson?
Should Donald Trump lose next month, hopes would fade for a quick U.S.-U.K. trade deal. But there would be plenty of pluses for Britain, too.
Friends again?
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The U.S. election is weeks away and the doomsayers for the U.K.’s relationship with a post-Trump America are out in force. Joe Biden is “an Irish-American with no particular love for Boris Johnson or Brexit Britain,” thundered a Times of London column last week. Other Conservative voices predict that a Democrat victory would be disastrous for the Brits and would end the special relationship.
It’s fashionable to caricature Johnson as a populist mini-Trump, but Biden’s experienced foreign policy team will — fortunately — have a more sophisticated view. The prospects for a continuing partnership between the two old allies are bright enough, although an olive branch needs to come from London.