Boris Johnson and Joe Biden.Photo: Justin Tallis - WPA Pool/Getty; Chip Somodevilla/Getty
The relationship between the U.S. and the United Kingdom is looking more and more positive in recent weeks, according to Prime MinisterBoris Johnson.
The prime minister said one major reason for that is he now gets to work with PresidentJoe Biden, Johnson told CBS News’Face the Nationprogram on Sunday morning.
“There’s been some important developments in the way the U.K.-U.S. thinking has been coming together in the last few weeks,” Johnson, 56, said. “Particularly on issues like climate change, on NATO, on Iran — but above all, on the ways that the U.S. and the U.K. are going to work together to deal with the environmental challenge that faces our planet.”
On those issues, Johnson added, “I think some of the stuff we’re now hearing from the new American administration and from the new White House is incredibly encouraging. And we want to work with the president on that.”
President Joe Biden.Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/Bloomberg via Getty
Prime Minister Boris Johnson in March 2020.Peter Summers/Getty
Along with Johnson’s positive tone Sunday, Biden has mostly received a similar warm welcome from other world leaders since taking office last month.
The 46th president replaced Trump, 74, who led the U.S. with an isolationist approach under his version of global policy. Trump had routinely broke norms with his international relations and caused both political andpersonalstirs among other world leaders.
At a 2019 NATO summit in London, Johnson — who Trump had previously called a “friend” — wascaught on camera gossiping about the former U.S. presidentalong with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
Meanwhile in terms of policy, the former U.S. president had pulled the country out of global pacts like the Paris Climate Agreement and threatened last year, amid the ongoingnovel coronavirus (COVID-19)pandemic, to pull the U.S.’s funding out from the World Health Organization.
Biden quickly signed a slew of executive orders reversing Trump’s policies as soon as he took office last month — among themrecommittingthe U.S. to both the climate agreement and the WHO.
Johnson said Sunday that he and Biden have already had a number of “fantastic conversations” within the new president’s first four weeks in office.
source: people.com
