Johnson ‘not top of the list’ for Biden phone call, with pair yet to speak
British diplomats reportedly believe that Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Irish premier Michael Martin will be the first leaders to hear from Biden.
British diplomats reportedly believe that Angela Merkel, Emmanuel Macron and Irish premier Michael Martin will be the first leaders to hear from Biden.
The peer has previously denied being racist, after calling Leo Varadkar, who was then Ireland’s taoiseach, a “typical Indian”.
Government would reinstate controversial clauses that enable ministers to break international laws if Lords try to strip them out.
"The UK will now be conscious of the fact that they have a US president who’ll be focusing in a completely different way to Donald Trump on the impact of the Brexit deal."
Biden warned that the Good Friday Agreement cannot be “a casualty of Brexit” and said a UK-US trade deal would be dependent on the peace terms being upheld.
The foreign secretary insisted that he would not be "dragged into" questions over the legitimacy of the vote in remarks branded "astonishing" by Sky News anchor Sophy Ridge.
“We will never forget your racist comments about Obama and slavish devotion to Trump.”
In a rousing speech, Biden vowed an end to “this grim era of demonisation in America”.
Reacting to the news on Twitter, Starmer said that Biden had run a campaign "on the values that we in the United Kingdom share - decency, integrity, compassion and strength."
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