US election: How Boris Johnson can establish relations with Joe Biden

When news of Barack Obama’s election victory broke in November 2008, Gordon Brown, the then Prime Minister, said in his congratulatory statement that he had “talked to Senator Obama on many occasions”, adding: “I know that he is a true friend of Britain.”

David Cameron had also spent time with Mr Obama during the election campaign, hosting the presidential hopeful in his parliamentary office months before polling day.

Eight years later, Theresa May, always an unlikely acquaintance of Donald Trump, enjoyed no such relations with the US president, who took up office just months after she entered Downing Street. But Mr Trump’s strong affection for Britain saw her become the first foreign leader to meet the newly inaugurated president in the White House in 2017.

This week, as Joe Biden was declared the 46th president of the United States, British aides and officials were frantically preparing to beat a path to the former vice president’s door for Boris Johnson.

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