Prime Minister Johnson stormed to an 80-seat majority in December’s general election, and an expert on US politics who used to work with the Foreign Office believes this will cause concern for those looking to challenge President Trump in November. The two remaining candidates in the Democratic Party primaries are Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, and Professor Stephen Burman highlights how Mr Johnson’s politics represent a similar challenge the one they will face from the current White House chief.

He told Express.co.uk: “Yes they will see it (Johnson’s victory) as something of a problem, it’s not just a matter of Johnson, it’s what he is representing – a sort of working class populism in this country.

“Some of the right-wing populism in Europe – some of Trump’s people have been actively encouraging that way of thinking, they aren’t very fond of the EU – they see it as a deep state liberal establishment.

“What Johnson represents is sympathetic to the Trump view of the world – they see it as a movement and a wave of challenge to the establishment and Joe Biden won’t be sympathetic to that.”

Professor Burman also highlights how when he worked in Whitehall, civil servants had to adapt to changes in Washington – and also warned this could cause future tension.

He added: “There will be a difficulty there, the British Government will be very flexible in these matters, I saw when I was working in government how the civil service shifted towards whatever was going on in America.

“But they won’t be starting from a good place because they are quite tied with the Trumpian perspective and Biden is fighting against that and doesn’t like it.

“Sanders in a different way because he is more left wing, a bit more populist but Britain wouldn’t really be on his radar, he is a very domestic politician.”

Mr Biden was one of the major US voices to express concern over Mr Johnson’s victory in December.

He said at the time that the result showed that left-wing politics was not a winning formula – an apparent dig at his opponent Mr Sanders.

He said: “Boris Johnson is winning in a walk. Look what happens when the Labour Party moves so, so far to the left.

“It comes up with ideas that are not able to be contained within a rational basis quickly.”

Mr Sanders, a self-described “democratic socialist” also received warnings from others after Jeremy Corbyn’s stinging defeat.

This became clear during Bill Maher’s Real Time show on HBO last month.

The Democrat Party donor invited author Fareed Zakaria on, who began to draw similarities between the two left wing politicians.

He said: “Populists use the politics of symbolism which people on the left counter with 20-point programmes.

“I worry that what Bernie is doing is exactly what Jeremy Corbyn did in Britain.”

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Mr Maher replied: “Corbyn looks just like Bernie. Same age. Very, very far left.”

Mr Zakaria then added: “And he took the Labour Party way left and they got the worst showing since 1935.

“Against a guy who looks and acts just like Trump. And he [Johnson] talked about immigration and taking control of borders and controlling the culture.

“I can see someone in the future saying, ‘You idiot Americans, we showed this to you, how it looked in Britain. Their Bernie Sanders guy ran against the Trump guy and got his a** kicked’.”

As Trump prepares to do battle with the Democrats once more, it appears the Prime Minister’s success is sending a clear message to voters across the Atlantic.

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