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

Although a slightly haphazard set of pledges, it accepts world has moved on from Brexit and 2019 UK election

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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.