Biden puts pressure on Johnson to do a deal with the EU
Joe calling
DOWNING STREET was cock-a-hoop on November 10th when Joe Biden, America’s president-elect, telephoned Boris Johnson before any other European leader. Yet the call was not just a friendly one to cement the “special relationship”. There was an implicit threat in it: if Mr Johnson allowed Britain to leave the EU without a deal, thus undermining the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) that brought peace to Northern Ireland, Britain would not get a trade deal with America.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Joe calling”
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