Downing Street has said it is up to Joe Biden to decorate the Oval Office, after he reported that the body of Winston Churchill, on loan from the UK government, had been removed.
“The Oval Office is the president’s private office, and it is up to the president to dress as he pleases,” Boris Johnson’s official said, adding: “We have no doubt about the importance of President Biden is on a UK-US relationship, and the Prime Minister looks forward to having such a close relationship. “
Johnson’s calm attitude is very different from his criticism of Barack Obama, when former president Churchill’s body shifted to one side.
Writing in The Sun in 2016, Johnson, then mayor of London, and author of Churchill’s biography, described Obama’s decision as a “snub,” suggesting that it may be because ” Kenya’s presidential will appeal to the British empire ”.
The body of Mexican American Labor rights director Cesar Chavez was seen in photos of Biden signing action orders Wednesday.
The Prime Minister, whom Donald Trump referred to as president as “Britain Trump”, wants to strike a strong working relationship with the socially liberal Biden, which the government hopes to be present at the G7 meeting in Cornwall in June.
Johnson had to be asked a series of questions as to whether Johnson was “awakened”, after shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy described Biden as “an awakened person,” referring to its support for Black Lives Matter and trans rights.
Asked about her comments on Wednesday, Johnson appeared uncomfortable, before saying no, “nothing wrong with being awakened”.
When asked if the prime minister thought Johnson would have been “awakened”, he said: “You have to explain that, but your MM’s views on what he believes,” and in particular on its agenda to move nationwide, and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to succeed. “
The Conservatives are publicly opposed by rejecting social liberal policies such as the removal of historical images with colonial ties helping them to earn points over labor.
Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick has said he will legislate to ban the removal of historic images, “at the hand of the flash mob” or with a “cultural committee of town hall soldiers and awakening awards”.
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Johnson’s comments about Obama, made during the run-up to the Brexit referendum, caused fur. It then emerged that Obama had just moved the warlord’s move – a loan from the UK government – to a place in his personal residence.
When Theresa May rushed to Washington in early 2017 to become the first world leader to visit Trump in the White House, he swept her into the Oval Office to show that Churchill had been brought back into publicity.