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Politico (9 November 2020)

By Cristina Gallardo

Joe Biden’s arrival in the White House will push the U.K. to work more closely with the EU — but won’t be the thing that clinches a Brexit deal.

In Donald Trump, whose dream of a second U.S. presidential term was finally extinguished Saturday, Boris Johnson had found an enthusiastic supporter of a no-deal Brexit, willing to talk up the “special relationship” between Washington and London.

Biden becomes U.S. president-elect at a critical moment in Brexit talks, as negotiators enter the final weeks where agreement is possible if the U.K. is going to leave the transition period at the end of the year with a trade deal in place. Biden has long opposed Brexit and his Irish roots have sparked hopes in Ireland that he would take the Republic’s side in any cross-border Brexit dispute.

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