When Rishi Sunak became Prime Minister last October, Joe Biden phoned him to reaffirm the ‘special relationship’. But when the two leaders appeared at a press conference last night to launch the Aukus pact with Australia, Sunak probably wished Biden hadn’t been so chummy.
Biden seems to have given the Red Wall, and Sunak’s political opponents, plenty to chew over
‘First of all, I want to welcome him back to California,’ Biden said of Sunak.
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