article_snippet.sent: Washington believes that the ‘special relationship’ between Britain and the US is over, according to a secret briefing document seen by The Mail on Sunday.
article_snippet.sent: The memo for members of Congress states damningly that ‘UK UK may not be viewed as centrally relevant to the US in all of the issues and relations considered a priority on the US agenda’.
article_snippet.sent: Dated April 2015 and drawn up to brief the Senate and House of Representatives on the impact of Britain’s General Election,
article_snippet.sent: The document – prepared by the Congressional Research Service, an in-house intelligence body that gives confidential analysis to legislators – states that while Britain and the US are likely to ‘remain key economic partners’, a ‘reassessment of the special relationship may be in order… because its geopolitical setting has been changing’.
article_snippet.sent: The memo, edited by Derek E Mix, the CRS’s chief European affairs analyst, says that the development of organisations such as the G20 group of major economies has led to a decline in the ‘influence and centrality of the relationship’.
article_snippet.sent: the development of organisations such as the G20 group of major economies has led to a decline in the ‘influence and centrality of the relationship’ also states that the UK’s continued importance to the US will hinge on the future success of the economy – and Chancellor George Osborne’s implementation of spending cuts.
article_snippet.sent: ‘A significant degree of the UK’sChancellor George Osborne’s international influence flows from the success and dynamism of the economy –, further raising the stakes on whether the UK’s can sustain stronger economic growth while continuing to pursue ambitious fiscal consolidation.
article_snippet.sent: ‘deepest conviction that unless Britain and the United States are joined in a special relationship… another destructive war will come to pass’.
article_snippet.sent: Increasingly, however, the special relationship has come to be seen as one-sided, with British Prime Ministers more keen to flag up the alliance than US Presidents.
article_snippet.sent: The memo also expresses concern about a potential UK exit from the EU following an ‘Out’ vote in any referendum, saying: ‘Both the positive and the negative aspects of a prospective life outside the EU the EU are more difficult to foresee.
highlights_snippet.sent: Memo damningly states UK may no longer be 'centrally relevant' to the US .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Organisations such as the G20 group of major economies has led to a decline in the ‘influence and centrality of the relationship' 