Inside Politics: Boris Johnson prepares for phone call with Joe Biden

The prime minister is now pondering whether to drop the law-breaking parts of his Brexit bill to keep the president-elect happy, writes Adam Forrest

Boris Johnson leaves 10 Downing Street to attend the Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Whitehall (Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Donald Trump still has a few friends left to play golf with – though not the kind of friends who’ll tell him he lost the election. Boris Johnson is busy trying to win the friendship of Joe Biden. The president-elect’s sport is American football (he was a pretty good college player). Maybe Boris could tell him about the time he knocked over a Japanese boy playing rugby? Keen to ingratiate himself, the PM is now considering whether to drop the offending clause in his law-breaking Brexit bill. The PM is also keen to ingratiate himself with Britain’s most popular footballer – giving in to Marcus Rashford’s demand that the poorest children get fed this winter.

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