Commons Confidential: The workers divided
The belief that Joe Biden’s team only really care about Northern Ireland and Cop26 is why, whispered my snout, Boris Johnson gave the European Union a UK internal border down the Irish Sea and instructed Alok Sharma to be a salesman for November’s climate change conference in Glasgow. Banking on Sharma to deliver the US president is a speculative punt. One of his last jobs as business secretary was to take part in an hour-long phone call with 250 captains of industry. A FTSE boss said he’d forgotten Sharma was involved until he popped up at the end to say bye.
Source: newstatesman.com