Boris Johnson has long been lobbying for an audience with Joe Biden. The prime minister is visiting the US this month for the UN general assembly.
The trip has generated a palpable air of desperation in Downing Street. No other postwar prime minister has waited so long for that precious White House photo call with a new US president. And Johnson is scarcely awash with invitations from other world leaders.
The prime minister was sidelined by Washington during the humiliating Nato pullout from Afghanistan. And the UK is hosting this November’s COP 26 climate change conference. Johnson badly needs deeper US commitments to cut carbon emissions if the event is to be a success.
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