Hello and welcome. This is an audio recording of an IFG live event.

Welcome to this Institute for Government discussion on what does a Biden presidency mean for the UK.

My name is Richard Lambert. I'm on the board of the Institute and I'm standing in today for our director of Bronwyn Maddox.

Here's here's the plan.

In a moment I'll introduce you to our stellar plan panel.

Each of them will talk for four or five minutes.

Then we'll have a general discussion for 20 minutes or so and then over to you for 20 minutes of comment,

questions, whatever you feel in the mood for.

And please, you'll see, keep the questions coming from the beginning because then I can pop them in for the

panelists as they're talking to embarrass them if that's possible. And we could run through in that way.

If you'd like, add your name and your location to your question as you pop it up on the screen.

This event is on the record. There'll be a video and sound recording up on the IFG website in the next 24 hours.

They're going to be tweeting away from at IFG events using the hashtag IFG POTUS 2020. And please feel free to tweet along yourselves.

So here's the panel. We're going to start with Dan Bolts, who's chief correspondent of the

Washington Post, covering national politics, the presidency, Congress. He's written some great articles, obviously,

some great books. And if you've ever watched current affairs television in the US, you've seen

Dan. He wrote a piece the other day saying the new president couldn't afford to make any

mistakes. He had to hit the ground running. So he's going to tell us the difference between

President Biden and President

Trump. Then we have Elizabeth Dibble, who is chief operating officer at the Carnegie Institute.

She joined there in 2017 after a long service in the diplomatic service in the United States,

in the Middle East, in Europe economics. She was the deputy chief of mission here in the United States, in the Middle East, in Europe, economics. She was the deputy chief of

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