The foreign secretary has told Sky News the UK's relationship with the United States will go from "strength to strength" whatever the outcome of the election.
Dominic Raab said the election is still "too close to call" but that he is totally confident the American system "will give us a definitive result".
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He told Kay Burley: "The UK-US relationship is in great shape and we're confident that it will go from strength to strength, whichever candidate wins the election."
Votes are still being counted, but Donald Trump has accused his opponents of "fraud on the American public" - and claimed victory in the US election before all results have been announced.
It could be days yet before the world knows who has won.
Mr Raab acknowledged that there would be "slightly different contours of the opportunities and the risks" for the UK-US relationship depending on who is in the White House.
But the Foreign Secretary told Sky News that the "bedrock" of the security, economic and cultural ties meant "the relationship will go from strength to strength".
Asked whether a Joe Biden win would strain the relationship, because of his opposition to Brexit and his support for Ireland, Mr Raab said he was "confident that the relationship would be in good shape".
Mr Raab said: "I'm not worried about the relationship. The contours of the opportunities and the risks always shift a little bit, but that needs to be set against the context of this bedrock and this wider set of interests which are so strong."
Shadow foreign secretary Lisa Nandy told Sky News there was "no doubt in my mind that Britain's interest lies with a Joe Biden victory".
She said the Labour party would want to work with a "US administration that wants to play a role in bringing the world together to tackle coronavirus, that wants to re-join the Paris agreement on climate change, that wants to rid the world of nuclear weapons, particularly in relation to Iran at the moment".
She said there is a "huge amount at stake for Britain" and called for a "reset" in the UK's approach to its relationship with America.
"The last four years have not produced gains for Britain," she told Kay Burley.
"There is deep concern about the way in which Boris has cast himself in the mould of Donald Trump", Ms Nandy said.
She added that the recent relationship has "not paid dividends for the United Kingdom".
She said there is an opportunity to have a "very strong partnership" with the US if Mr Biden wins, but that Britain will need to be more "hard-headed" about standing up for its interests in the future.
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2020-11-04 09:00:00Z
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