sincere question about Biden and the ongoing Brexit situation

[steve2470]

I have a UK friend who claimed (without evidence or citations) that Biden is being viewed negatively in the UK for a comment he made about Brexit. This is what I have found:

https://www.reuters.com/article/britain-eu/biden-warns-uk-on-brexit-no-trade-deal-unless-you-respect-n-irish-peace-pact-idINKBN2680SR

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020 2:35 AM updated a day ago

LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden warned the United Kingdom that it must honour Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace agreement as it withdraws from the European Union or there would be no separate U.S. trade deal.


Prime Minister Boris Johnson is proposing new legislation that would break the Northern Ireland protocol of the Brexit divorce treaty that seeks to avoid a physical customs border between British-ruled Northern Ireland and EU-member Ireland.

“We can’t allow the Good Friday Agreement that brought peace to Northern Ireland to become a casualty of Brexit,” Biden said in a tweet on Wednesday.

“Any trade deal between the U.S. and U.K. must be contingent upon respect for the Agreement and preventing the return of a hard border. Period.”

I have no idea what media she consumes in the UK. I wanted to avoid an argument, so I changed the topic as fast as I could.

Is this on the UK political radar at all ? Thank you for your response.


Steve