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Politico (7 June 2021)

BY ESTHER WEBBER

Joe Biden made little secret of his contempt for Brexit — but with the U.K. now out of the EU, Boris Johnson's Conservatives find themselves converging with the U.S. president's party on key issues. 

The Democrats have always had an uneasy relationship with Brexit. In one of many miscalculations during the 2016 EU referendum campaign, David Cameron reportedly prevailed on Barack Obama to inform a U.K. audience that a vote to leave would mean going to “the back of the queue” for any potential trade deal. It was a threat that still rankles with many of those who voted Leave, or who simply thought it was unseemly for a foreign head of state to weigh in.

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