Does Joe Biden really care what Rishi Sunak thinks about anything?

The US-UK relationship seems to be more one-sided than ever, writes John Rentoul

Joe Biden and Rishi Sunak in the Oval Office of the White House on Thursday (Reuters)

Apart from the occasional personal chemistry between presidents and prime ministers – Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher; Bill Clinton and Tony Blair – the relationship between the US and the UK has long been lopsided.

Any British visitor to the US is surprised by the dearth of news coverage of the UK, in sharp contrast to our fixation on US politics and US culture wars as if they were our own. Nevertheless, Britain has long been significant in US foreign policy, mainly because US governments have seen us as a strong ally inside the EU, able to influence it in a favourable direction.

Now that we are out of the EU, we are inevitably less important in the world as seen from the White House.