Liz Truss lands in US to reset ‘special relationship’ on first foreign trip as PM

New PM must win over Joe Biden after threats to rip up Northern Ireland protocol, but will find common ground on Ukraine

Liz Truss has arrived in the US where she will hold talks with Joe Biden, the US president, on her first foreign trip as UK prime minister.

Relations between the two leaders are already strained by her threats as foreign secretary to rip up the post-Brexit trading arrangements in Northern Ireland.