In Biden's Oval Office, Johnson's big Brexit promise slips away

US president makes clear trade deal with UK still far off

Boris Johnson talked up a trade deal with the US as one of the major prizes of his campaign for Brexit. Sitting in the Oval Office on Tuesday, it was clear the UK leader has little hope of delivering it.

“We’re going to talk a little bit about trade today and we’re going to have to work that through,” US President Joe Biden told reporters at the start of his meeting with Johnson, when asked about the prospects for an agreement. The lukewarm response comes after the British prime minister himself tried to downplay expectations of progress. On the plane to