Matthew Taylor

Sunday shows round-up: Raab ‘excited’ to work with Biden

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab, Picture credit: BBC, Marr

Dominic Raab – ‘I’m excited’ about working with President Biden

On the morning after Joe Biden was declared President-elect, the Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab offered his congratulations to Mr Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris. Raab told Sophy Ridge that the Biden administration would find plenty of common ground with Boris Johnson’s government:

DR: The things that President-elect Biden wants to achieve internationally… not just security and counter-terrorism in the Middle East, but coronavirus and returning to the Paris Climate Agreement – these are all things which… we’ll have a huge amount to co-operate on and I’m excited about working with the new administration.

We’ve got ‘full faith’ in the checks and balances of the US

Andrew Marr asked Raab if there was any truth to Donald Trump’s persistent claims that the elections had been marred by electoral fraud, something which Trump has indicated he will pursue in the courts:

AM: Were these elections a completely legal and fair process?

DR: …I think they were… We’ve got full faith in the checks and balances of the American system to reach a clear result… I think, particularly if you’re the government, you’ve got to tread carefully and sensitively and not risk being perceived to be interfering in either the campaign or the aftermath.

We’re ‘listening’ to US concerns about Internal Market Bill

Marr also picked up on President-elect Biden’s attitude to Brexit and how this might affect his relationship with the UK.

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