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‘They do not think Boris Johnson is an ally,’ a Democratic party source has said (Picture: Reuters) In some US cities, Joe Biden’s confirmation as president-elect was met with street parties. In Paris, the bells rang. And in London – so The Hill reported in a series of excitable tweets – locals let off fireworks in celebration. The fact it was the Saturday after Bonfire Night, and fireworks would have been seen above London even if the whole of California had just fallen into the ocean, seems to have passed America by. The difference in perspectives on either side of the Atlantic, however, is greater than just a mildly amusing misunderstanding. And they weren’t the only sparks to fly between the two sides of the so-called special relationship. On the front page of the Sunday Times, a lengthy report on the incipient panic in Downing Street suggested that the incoming Biden administration does not much care for our prime minister. ‘They do not think Boris Johnson is an ally,’ a Democratic party source told the paper. ‘There will be no special relationship with Boris Johnson.’ This, the report suggests, has come as something of a surprise to Johnson, who is said to have joked: ‘Joe Biden is one of the few world leaders I haven’t insulted.’ But if Johnson really is surprised that Biden may not think much of his record, he must be the only one. {“@context”:“https:\/\/schema.org”,“@type”:“VideoObject”,“name”:“Metro.co.uk”,“duration”:“T1M50S”,“thumbnailUrl”:“https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2020\/11\/08\/13\/35400960-0-image-a-36_1604843487309.jpg”,“uploadDate”:“2020-11-08T12:25:30+0000”,“description”:“The Prime Minister says: ‘I look forward to working with President Biden.’”,“contentUrl”:“https:\/\/videos.metro.co.uk\/video\/met\/2020\/11\/08\/1667823177235283671\/480x270_MP4_1667823177235283671.mp4”,“height”:270,“width”:480} To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Strike one against any future special relationship between president and PM: Biden has extensive Irish roots, is vocally proud of them, and in September tweeted that the Good Friday Agreement (GFA) must not ‘become a casualty of Brexit’. This is a problem, because Johnson’s hopes for an independent trade policy mean pulling the entire UK out of the EU’s economic structures; that, in turn, means a customs border between the two bits of Ireland, in direct contravention of the GFA. So even if the Tories hadn’t made disrespecting Ireland into some sort of sport, the arrival of the Biden administration would wreck Johnson’s plans for a US/UK trade deal – the sort that might, even though the UK has far more trade with the EU than the inconveniently distant US, make his Brexit policy look very slightly less stupid. Strike two: unlike many former vice presidents, Biden was politically and personally close to his president. Remember that almost tearful interview about the support Barack Obama gave him while his son Beau was dying? So Johnson’s 2016 claim that the administration’s removal of a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House was a ‘symbol of the part-Kenyan president’s ancestral dislike of the British empire’ was not just racist in at least two different ways, it was also personally offensive to Biden as well as Obama. This has not been forgotten. When Johnson tweeted his congratulations to the new president-elect, former White House advisor Tommy Vietor replied, ‘This shapeshifting creep weighs in.’ ‘They do not think Boris Johnson is an ally,’ a Democratic party source told the paper. ‘There will be no special relationship with Boris Johnson’ Strike three: on Friday, Biden cited the need to tackle ‘systemic racism’ as a priority for his administration – unsurprising, perhaps, given either his voter base or the identity of his vice president, Kamala Harris, the first woman elected to the White House and a woman of mixed Black and Indian ancestry. This doesn’t quite tally with our foreign secretary Dominic Raab’s perspective: he has described taking the knee, a key symbol of the Black Lives Matter protests, as ‘a symbol of subjugation and subordination’. (Unhelpful, too, was Raab’s performance on Sky’s Sophy Ridge show on Sunday, when he bafflingly refused to agree that democracy requires all outstanding votes to be counted.) Johnson also struggled to condemn Trump’s demands to stop the count, even when his campaign was reduced to holding a press conference at Four Seasons Landscape Gardening (a suburban yard conveniently located between a crematorium and a sex shop, which was not in fact at the Four Seasons Hotel at all). Little wonder that Biden insiders would draw parallels between Trump and Steve Bannon on one side of the Atlantic, and Johnson and Dominic Cummings on the other. Let’s not forget that last year Biden called Johnson ‘a physical and emotional clone’ of Trump. One upside for Johnson is that the election result may not actually make a US-UK trade deal less likely, in roughly the same way that forgetting to buy a ticket doesn’t make winning the lottery that much less likely. Whoever sits in the White House, any such deal would have had to pass a Congress at least partly controlled by Democrats who would block anything that damaged the Good Friday Agreement. More: UK Harry and Meghan take part in photo shoot at cemetery for Remembrance Sunday Dad-of-two shot dead while leaving Biden celebrations in Seattle Trump supporter is asked 'why are you dressed for war’ as he turns up with assault rifle And while Trump may have seemed better disposed to post-Brexit Britain, his ‘America First’ rhetoric was a reminder of where his real priorities lay. Any deal backed by his White House would still have involve hugely unpopular things like chlorinated chicken and a greater private sector role in the NHS. Britain may have close ties to America – but so do France, Israel, Ireland and half a dozen other countries, and while the special relationship is real, to the US, it simply isn’t that special. Perhaps Downing Street can take some consolation from the fact that, even if the new White House is less Anglophile than the old, we never really mattered that much in the first place. Born in New York, Boris Johnson had US citizenship until he renounced it in 2017. But he has clearly forgotten something key about US culture: in baseball, three strikes and you’re out. Do you have a story that you’d like to share? Get in touch by emailing harriet.marsden@metro.co.uk. Share your views in the comments below. MORE : What happens before Joe Biden becomes US President? 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