Boris Johnson threatens to rip up 'unbalanced' extradition treaty with the US after Trump refuses to extradite a diplomat's wife accused of killing a British teenager

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• UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson attacks the country's "unbalanced" extradition arrangements with the US after the Trump administration refused to extradite the wife of a US diplomat who is accused of being involved in a car crash with a British teenager last year.
• Johnson told the UK Parliament on Wednesday that: "I do think there are elements of that relationship that are imbalanced and I certainly think that it is worth looking at."
• Diplomatic relations between Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have significantly cooled in recent weeks, with the president reportedly slamming down the phone on the prime minister after he defied US requests to ban Huawei from developing the country's 5G network.
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Boris Johnson has hinted that he could tear up the United Kingdom's extradition arrangements with the United States after the Trump administration refused to extradite the wife of a US diplomat who is accused of killing a British teenager.

Johnson was asked on Wednesday by opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn about the "lopsided" arrangements with the US after Johnson's government failed to secure US agreement to extradite Anne Sacoolas, the American national suspected of killing British teenager Harry Dunn in a road accident.

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