On Saturday, Business Insider reported that British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is already facing distrust from the new Joe Biden administration — because of his decision to hitch his political brand so closely to Donald Trump's.
"Johnson's ties to Trump, both personally and in his political style, remain a source of distrust among Biden's allies," reported Thomas Colson. "'Boris has said a lot of stuff,' Ashish Prashar, a Biden-Harris campaign surrogate and justice reform advocate who previously worked for Biden, told Insider. 'He's aligned himself with people like Steve Bannon. He has been public about his dismissals around President Obama's birth.'"
"While many world leaders attempted to forge close relations with Trump, Johnson went further, repeatedly speaking admiringly of the former president," said the report. "He was also reported to have been in close contact for a time with US alt-right provocateur Steve Bannon, Trump's former campaign manager. Biden's senior team also views Brexit as a significant mistake. Last year, there was alarm in London when Biden issued Johnson with a stern warning over the impact of his Brexit plans on Northern Ireland."
Johnson has often been characterized at a British version of Trump, including by Trump himself. In addition to being one of the leading forces behind Brexit, which was motivated in large part by anti-immigration sentiment, Johnson has a history of racist comments, including that former president Barack Obama was a "part-Kenyan" with "ancestral dislike" of Britain and that Muslim women in burqas look like "letterboxes."
Biden and Johnson will still work closely together on international issues, out of necessity, said the report: "Both leaders face the monumental domestic task of vaccinating their own populations against COVID and eradicating the virus globally. Additionally, Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken face the task of restoring America's position on the world stage after four years."
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