Truss and Biden is the major issue that could scuttle relations between US and UK

• The White House will be in lockstep on many foreign policy issues facing the UK’s next prime leader.
• Indeed, “meet the new UK prime minister” and, to put it frankly, “who is Liz Truss?”
• That could not be said of her predecessor, Boris Johnson, who Joe Biden famously referred to as a “physical and emotional clone” of Donald Trump, even before he was made prime minister.

The White House will be in lockstep on many foreign policy issues facing the UK’s next prime leader. But there is one matter that is considerably more personal and on which they disagree greatly.

You will likely receive a blank face in response if you ask the majority of Americans, including the majority in Washington, what they think of Liz Truss.

Indeed, “meet the new UK prime minister” and, to put it frankly, “who is Liz Truss?” have made headlines in newspapers.

That could not be said of her predecessor, Boris Johnson, who Joe Biden famously referred to as a “physical and emotional clone” of Donald Trump, even before he was made prime minister.

But the key players in Washington are now intensely interested in what the new leader of Britain will bring to the much-touted “special relationship” and whether or not she can overcome some significant roadblocks that pose a serious danger to relations with the Biden administration.

The Northern Ireland Protocol, which mandates additional customs checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland, is the one that is now causing the most serious and urgent problems between the UK and the EU.

The EU and Washington have rejected the UK government’s threats to unilaterally modify the agreement, and Liz Truss has been at the forefront of those threats as foreign secretary.

Nile Gardiner, head of the Margaret Thatcher Center for Freedom at the conservative Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., said that he does anticipate that Liz Truss will take a much more active stance on the issue.

She won’t be afraid to explain to the US president in person in the Oval Office why the US should support the UK in this, in my opinion.

However, this strategy is sure to infuriate the present president and his party.

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