As a key member of Gordon Brown’s UK government, former Scottish MP Douglas Alexander got to Joe Biden as vice president.
Writing for the Daily Record, Alexander, now a Senior Fellow at Harvard University, says it hard to think of a more nightmarish in-tray than the one facing Biden as he steps into the Oval Office.
The inauguration takes place in a city protected by 25,000 National Guardsmen, just days after the Capitol building was attacked for the first time since British troops set it alight in 1812.
The country is still tightly in the grip of the pandemic, which has already cost almost 400,000 American lives and instead of healing America’s divisions, the election simply exposed them.
More than 10 million more American’s voted for Trump in 2020 than in 2016.
But Alexander is confident the new President sworn in today is well equipped for the challenges the USA and the world face.
