British Prime Minister Boris Johnson supplied his congratulations to President-elect Joe Biden, however he ought to locate a Biden White House appreciably chillier than that of his fellow populist, President Trump.

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Johnson stated he appeared ahead to working with Biden on shared priorities, which includes local weather change, alternate and security, whilst noting that the U.S. is Britain's most necessary ally.

However, in contrast to Trump, who is chummy with the British top minister, Biden is no fan of Johnson. For one thing, Biden adverse Johnson's signature policy, Brexit, and final yr referred to the British chief as a "kind of bodily and emotional clone" of Trump.

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There may additionally additionally be bitterness left over from Biden's first stint in the White House, when he used to be vice president. In 2016, Johnson complained in a newspaper column about a selection to go a bust of Winston Churchill out of the Oval Office. Johnson counseled it would possibly be due to "the part-Kenyan president's ancestral dislike of the British Empire."

Tommy Vietor, a spokesman for the National Security Council below President Barack Obama and co-host of Pod Save America, pushed aside Johnson's precise desires to Biden.

"This shapeshifting creep weighs in," Vietor wrote on Twitter. "We will by no means neglect your racist feedback about Obama and slavish devotion to Trump however neat Instagram graphic."

Johnson is determined for a post-Brexit free change deal with the U.S., however analysts right here stated that may not be a precedence for Biden, who they assume will rather center of attention on mending fences in Europe. Trump has portrayed some NATO allies as freeloaders and labeled the European Union a "foe."

Meanwhile, Nigel Farage, a Brexiteer and pal of Trump's, mocked the outpouring for Biden's win in America. "Today, a Biden statement indicates insurance that would make you assume Jesus had returned," Farage wrote on Twitter.

Others right here hoped possibly Britain may comply with America's lead some day and flip out its populist leader. "Just wondering. Can we have the adults lower back in OUR room now too?" Paul Dornan, a playwright who voted in opposition to Brexit, wrote on Twitter.