UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s conservative government is privately “desperate” for President Donald Trump to lose to Joe Biden this fall, according to a Business Insider report.

• Though Johnson is one of Trump’s closest international allies, his government has been quietly trying to distance itself from the United States president.
• One minister told The Sunday Times, “It would make things much easier if Trump doesn’t win re-election," adding that many others in the government agree.
• A senior UK diplomat told Business Insider earlier this month, “A lot of stuff will change if Biden wins.” The official added: "The venal corruption of the Trump family and the nasty narcissistic aspects of his behavior — all that will go with a different sort of president.”
• Biden and Johnson would be unlikely allies, though, as Biden has publicly opposed Brexit and previously described the PM as a “clone” of Trump.
• Despite tension between Trump and Johnson in recent months, Trump was successful in having the UK scrap its deal with Huawei to develop Britain’s 5G network.
• Even so, Business Insider reported, the ordeal “has helped to reduce the UK government's appetite to strike a new trade deal with Trump.”

Read the full report here.