Boris Johnson Offers Congratulations to Biden: Inaugural Update Bloomberg 1/19/2021 Bloomberg News (Bloomberg) -- The U.K. prime minister offered congratulations ahead of Wednesday’s inauguration. The president-elect’s morning stop Wednesday will have echoes of the last Catholic president. And some U.S. Capitol Police officers have contracted the coronavirus since the Jan. 6 riot. U.K. Prime Minister Johnson Congratulates Biden (5:56 p.m.) U.K. Prime Minister Boris Johnson congratulated Biden on his inauguration and said he looked forward to “working closely” with him to “defeat Covid and build back better from the pandemic.” In a statement released Tuesday, Johnson said the U.K. shared U.S. goals on “climate change, defense, security and in promoting and defending democracy” and the nations would work “hand in hand” to achieve them.