Britain needs the US to be its new best friend

With the EU unyielding in its Brexit demands, and with the third round of talks failing, the UK will become ever more dependent on its largest trading partner says John Lloyd

TO paraphrase a former US secretary of state, the UK has lost a community, but not yet found a friend. That is is adrift became ever clearer last week. British officials made little progress in their third round of talks over how to exit the EU.

While negotiators wait to get the preliminaries out of the way, so substantive talks can begin, the real question may be how much more dependent has Brexit made the UK on the US?