Biden Sparking Tensions In The UK...
It might have been all elbow-bumps and walks on the beach when the world media went to gawp at Joe Biden and Boris Johnson hanging out at the G7 in Cornwall. But beneath these stiff displays of US-UK friendliness, all is not well. Far from it. A virtually unprecedented crack has appeared in the so-called ‘special relationship’.
Last week Biden ordered his officials to issue the UK with a stern diplomatic rebuke. A demarche, as it’s called – ‘a formal diplomatic reprimand seldom exchanged between allies’, as The Times describes it. What did Blighty do to evoke the displeasure of the Empire, to receive this telling-off from the most powerful man on Earth? It dared to push back, a tiny bit, against the Northern Ireland Protocol...
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