Secret US memo for Congress seen by Mail On Sunday says Britain’s ‘special relationship’ with America is over
Memo damningly states UK may no longer be ‘centrally relevant’ to the US
Congressional Research Service, which gives confidential analysis, warns of turmoil if there is a hung parliament following general election
Organisations such as the G20 group of major economies has led to a decline in the ‘influence and centrality of the relationship’
By William Lowther In Washington and Glen Owen In London
DailyMailUK
11 April 2015
Washington believes that the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the US is over, according to a secret briefing document seen by The Mail on Sunday.
The memo for members of Congress states damningly that ‘the UK may not be viewed as centrally relevant to the United States in all of the issues and relations considered a priority on the US agenda’.
Dated April 2015 and drawn up to brief the Senate and House of Representatives on the impact of Britain’s General Election, the memo also warns that the UK faces turmoil if there is a hung parliament.
The document – prepared by the Congressional Research Service, an in-house intelligence body that gives confidential analysis to legislators – states that while Britain and the US are likely to ‘remain key economic partners’, a ‘reassessment of the special relationship may be in order… because its geopolitical setting has been changing’.
The memo, edited by Derek E Mix, the CRS’s chief European affairs analyst, says that the development of organisations such as the G20 group of major economies has led to a decline in the ‘influence and centrality of the relationship’.
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