# Boris Johnson was pressed on Donald Trump’s election results claim. This was his response
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Boris Johnson was pressed on Donald Trump’s election results claim. This was his response
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U.K.’s foreign secretary also said the country’s relationship with the U.S. would endure no matter who won the presidency
Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pressed on President Donald Trump’s reaction to the election process by the leader of the opposition, Keir Starmer.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson was pressed in the U.K. Parliament by the leader of the opposition on President Donald Trump’s claims he had won re-election with millions of votes left to be counted, as the race for the U.S. presidency remained undecided on Wednesday.
In Wednesday’s midday session of the weekly prime minister’s questions, Starmer asked: “Will the prime minister join me in saying that it isn’t for a candidate to decide which votes do and don’t count, or when to stop counting?”
“The next president must be the free and fair choice of the American people,” Starmer said.
In response, Johnson said: “We don’t comment as a U.K. government on the democratic processes of our friends and allies.”
Trump vowed to take the election fight to the Supreme Court, as millions of ballots remain uncounted in a number of crucial states, including Michigan and Pennsylvania. This year saw record numbers of mail-in ballots due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Just after midnight on Wednesday, Biden told supporters that the election “ain’t over until every vote is counted, every ballot is counted.”
By early Wednesday, the election outcome remained in the balance, with neither candidate having enough electoral votes for a victory. Biden was narrowly leading with 238 electoral votes to Trump’s 213, according to the Associated Press.
The exchange in the House of Commons came after the U.K.’s foreign secretary refused to comment on Trump’s speech, instead reiterating his faith in the strength of U.S. institutions.
Dominic Raab adopted a cautious, wait-and-see attitude on the election results in a national television appearance on the BBC, the U.K.’s national broadcaster, shortly after Trump’s speech.
“It is a very close election, we’re watching with great interest, it is for the American people to decide,” Raab said. “Whatever the election night comments from either side of the campaigns, I am confident and have full faith in the U.S. institutions.”
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Raab highlighted the uncertainty of the result, saying “we may not know the definitive results for hours if not days.”
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When pressed by the BBC to comment directly on Trump’s speech, and his allegations of election fraud, Raab declined.
“You’re asking me to comment on the campaign commentary from both sides and indeed the pundits, which forgive me, I’ll refrain from doing,” said the foreign secretary.
Raab also said that the close ties between the U.K. and the U.S., dubbed the “special relationship,” would endure no matter the result.
“I am very confident that regardless of whether there is a Republican or Democrat win, the British-U. S. relationship is in great shape,” Raab said.
His Conservative Party, under Johnson, has attempted warm relations with Trump’s Republican administration, as the U.K. seeks renewed alliances as it leaves the European Union.
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