As Britain prepares for a new leader, tensions with allies loom

Straits Times ^

[FarCenter]

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Should Truss emerge victorious in a party vote that will be announced on Monday, she will have a chance to flesh out the vision of a Global Britain that Johnson unveiled after the country left the European Union two years ago.

Based on her record as foreign secretary, diplomats and analysts in London and Washington said, relations could get bumpier with the US and, even more so, with Europe.

Tensions between London and Brussels have already flared over legislation introduced by Truss that would upend the post-Brexit trade arrangements in Northern Ireland. She has vowed to push the new law through Parliament, stoking fears that it could trigger a trade war across the English Channel.

The Biden administration is keeping close watch, anxious that the dispute could threaten a quarter-century of peace in Northern Ireland secured by the Good Friday Agreement. US President Joe Biden has asked aides to pass along his concern about the negotiations between Britain and the European Union over the trade rules.

"We're going to trundle along in a pretty bad place" in part because "she's going to keep playing to the peanut gallery of those who are deeply committed to Brexit," said Leslie Vinjamuri, the director of the US and Americas programme at Chatham House, the British research institution.

"There is a swath of Britain that doesn't like being dependent on the United States or the European Union," Vinjamuri said. "She is completely aligned with a vision of Britain being global, strong, sovereign and, most of all, independent."

Her Brexit-inflected message has helped Truss pile up a commanding lead in the polls over her opponent, Rishi Sunak.

[Gay State Conservative]

"We're going to trundle along in a pretty bad place" in part because "she's going to keep playing to the peanut gallery of those who are deeply committed to Brexit..."

Would this be the same "peanut gallery" that voted for Brexit...by a comfortable margin?

It sounds like she might be one of those dangerous "Make Britain Great Again" terrorists!

[ronnie raygun]

“How to make an enemy” by the left globalist agenda

[newzjunkey]

There is a swath of Britain that doesn't like being dependent on the United States or the European Union

Striving to avoid dependence as a nation is now deemed “ playing to the peanut gallery“ in 2022. What a world we live in.

[FarCenter]

Britain is in no condition to be independent. Its natural resources of iron ore, coal, oil, etc. have been used up. It has been over a century since it could feed its population.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

No, they are still there but it became much cheaper to import. No country is in a position to become completely autarchic anyway. We all depend on exotic materials that only come from certain parts of the world like rare earths.