Downing Street denied there was a “deep freeze” on Johnson-Biden relations on the issue after the prime minister failed to attend a previously agreed meeting on global infrastructure that was chaired by the U.S. president on Sunday.
A spokesman said Mr. Johnson and Mr. Macron had already discussed the plan with Mr. They drank earlier in the day and did not consider their assistance necessary.
The biofuels dispute comes ahead of a tough election cycle for Democrats, with high fuel prices and economic uncertainty likely to cost Biden control of Congress in November.
It is believed that maintaining support for organic crops and the farms that grow them could help the party maintain support for rural America.
The US is the world’s largest producer of ethanol for use as transport fuel and one of the largest producers of biodiesel. In April, Biden announced a plan to expand ethanol use over the summer because “biofuels have a role to play right now.”
However, it has also been reported that in private he expressed his concern for the policy, fearing that biofuels have a limited capacity to lower petrol prices as well as to undermine the climate policies of his administration.
Johnson has tried to portray the UK as Ukraine’s closest ally and will also present plans to help remove 25 million tonnes of grain from blocked Ukrainian silos before they rot in a month.
Plans include a £ 10 million fund to repair war-torn Ukrainian railways and a new “test process” to identify grain that was sold to Russia and stolen from Ukraine.