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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Peter Walker Deputy political editor

Atlantic declaration shows Sunak and Biden’s willingness to simply make do

Rishi Sunak (left) and Joe Biden shake hands while seated in the Oval Office
There was an obvious eagerness for Sunak and Biden to get on, whatever the arguable lack of natural connection. Photograph: Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images

If Rishi Sunak’s two-day visit to Washington demonstrated anything, it was the vital but sometimes neglected political lesson that in the absence of the ideal, you make the best of what you have, in terms of people and policy.

Sunak and Joe Biden are very different politicians and in many ways not natural allies. But what they do have in common is an appreciation that, for both, things could be much worse, or at least notably more chaotic, in the form of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss, or Donald Trump.

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