

A person familiar with the matter said the U.K. Then, hours before Johnson’s meeting with Biden, came a major strategy shift. He also hinted to Sky News he doesn’t expect an agreement before the next U.K. On the plane to New York, Johnson told reporters Biden has "a lot of fish to fry” and didn’t have time to negotiate.

The lukewarm response comes after the British prime minister himself tried to downplay expectations of progress.
