21-09-2022, 11:50 AM
Richard Hall
Wed, 21 September 2022 at 6:13 am
It got off to a rocky start under the leadership of Boris Johnson, whom Biden had called a “physical and emotional clone” of Donald Trump in 2019. It continued with disagreements over the status of the Irish border as the result of complications from Brexit.
And it looks set to continue under the new leadership of Liz Truss, who is set to meet with Biden in her first bilateral meeting with the US as prime minister on Wednesday.
It so happened that in the days ahead of the sitdown, both leaders were focused on selling their respective economic agendas to domestic audiences — Ms Truss in a preview of her first mini-budget, and Mr Biden in campaign mode for the midterms. And it so happened that those agendas are diametrically opposed.
Speaking to reporters ahead of her departure to New York, Ms Truss said of her forthcoming economic plan: “Lower taxes lead to economic growth, there is no doubt in my mind about that.”
The very next morning, Mr Biden tweeted: "I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked."
The timing could be a coincidence, perhaps. But a fundamental disagreement about how to help their citizens, coupled with a laundry list of political and ideological differences that touch on trade and borders, do not bode well for the future of US-UK relations.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-liz-...01492.html
Wed, 21 September 2022 at 6:13 am
It got off to a rocky start under the leadership of Boris Johnson, whom Biden had called a “physical and emotional clone” of Donald Trump in 2019. It continued with disagreements over the status of the Irish border as the result of complications from Brexit.
And it looks set to continue under the new leadership of Liz Truss, who is set to meet with Biden in her first bilateral meeting with the US as prime minister on Wednesday.
It so happened that in the days ahead of the sitdown, both leaders were focused on selling their respective economic agendas to domestic audiences — Ms Truss in a preview of her first mini-budget, and Mr Biden in campaign mode for the midterms. And it so happened that those agendas are diametrically opposed.
Speaking to reporters ahead of her departure to New York, Ms Truss said of her forthcoming economic plan: “Lower taxes lead to economic growth, there is no doubt in my mind about that.”
The very next morning, Mr Biden tweeted: "I am sick and tired of trickle-down economics. It has never worked."
The timing could be a coincidence, perhaps. But a fundamental disagreement about how to help their citizens, coupled with a laundry list of political and ideological differences that touch on trade and borders, do not bode well for the future of US-UK relations.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-liz-...01492.html