Boris Johnson's government is privately 'desperate' for Trump to lose the election to Joe Biden
The president reportedlyon Johnson in a moment of "apoplectic" fury in January, when Johnson initially refused to scrap the UK's deal with Huawei to help develop Britain's 5G network.
The UK ultimately relented following the imposition of US sanctions on the company. However, the row has helped to reduce Johnson's government's appetite to strike a new trade deal with Trump. On her recent trip to Washington, the UK's International Trade Secretary Liz Truss was told to downplay the prospects of a deal.Fears among UK voters about the potential impact of a US trade deal on food standards in Britain have reportedly forced Johnson's government to put the brakes on the previous briefing of a potentially rapid agreement.
"Is it going to happen this year? Basically, no," one UK government official told the Financial TimesJohnson's government believes that a Biden victory could take the "sting" out of the issue, because the Democrat challenger would likely revive Obama's plan to sign the US up to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership .
One Conservative Party adviser told the Sunday Times: "The assumption in Whitehall is that if Biden wins, we won't need to do a bilateral trade deal because we might both end up in CPTPP. That is already committed to high standards of animal welfare. Some of the sting will be removed from those issues."Something is loading.
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