Tehran, 08 June_The United Kingdom’s special relations with the United States may end if Republican President Donald Trump is reelected, former British diplomats and Conservative foreign policy specialists warn.
They also say that Washington may regard the EU not the UK as its primary partner if the Democrat Joe Biden is elected president.
The assessment, which has been made on and off the record in different seminars over the past month, underscores concerns at Trump’s performance during the coronavirus crisis.
In addition, it is a reflection of diplomatic outreach to London by Biden’s chief foreign policy adviser, Antony Blinken, The Guardian reported on Monday.
British diplomats have instead been looking to make a broader alternative alliance of democracies that waters down dependence on the United States, the report added.
“If Trump comes in for another four years that will be very challenging for the global system and for Britain’s relationship with the US,” Rory Stewart, the former Conservative international development secretary, said in one assessment.
“If we were to move away from the US, and Trump obviously poses the challenge that may have to happen, we are going to find ourselves in a situation in which much of our Foreign Office infrastructure had been predicated on working very closely with the US for a very long time.
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