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Obama brexit nytimes12/15/2023 To date, the UK’s trade deals – there have been more than 70 – have been either copy and pastes of the ones they had as a member of the EU or in some cases inimical to UK interests. Prioritising the restoration of powersharing in the North is merely an extension of his politics and not, as Foster or Gardiner claim, an act of “anti-Britishness”. Peace processīiden, however, sees the North’s peace process as one of the crowning achievements of US foreign policy and an embodiment of a stable world order now under threat from Russia and China. “Yet the harsh reality remains that America today is led by a petty and at times vindictive president, who thinks nothing of lecturing Britain over its Northern Ireland policy, and issuing stark warnings to Downing Street that a US/UK trade deal will not be on the agenda unless it plays ball over Irish issues and the EU,” Gardiner, director of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the Heritage Foundation, said. Having White House officials deny Biden “hates the United Kingdom” on the back of assertions by former Democratic Unionist Party leader Arlene Foster hasn’t helped matters and seems an ocean away from the “special relationship” the UK normally talks about when a US president visits.ĭaily Telegraph contributor Nile Gardiner echoed Foster’s comments, claiming Biden had “gravely insulted” the UK by lecturing it on Ireland and for his refusal to attend the forthcoming coronation of King Charles III. Brexiteers wanted out of the EU Trump wanted anything that would destabilise the EU. They’ve been on a different setting since Brexit, reflecting the link between Brexiteers and former president Donald Trump. It’s clear that UK relations with Washington are strained. Sunak is understood to have raised the issue with President Biden in Belfast last week but talk of a major trade deal appears off the agenda for now. The US is Britain’s second-largest market behind the EU. Such a deal is aimed at providing UK companies, particularly car exporters, with access to some of the large green subsidies offered under President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. UK prime minister Rishi Sunak is understood to be pushing for narrower pact covering “critical minerals” – used in the manufacture of technologies such as mobile phones, computers and semiconductors – in tandem with other countries and the EU. It literally hasn’t been mentioned since Brexiteers took power, something the opposition is bizarrely quiet about. ![]() A trade deal with the US – the jewel in the Brexit crown – is not even on the agenda. ![]() Either way, Obama’s warning has proved accurate.
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