US President Joe Biden is meeting the United Kingdom Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and King Charles on Monday, in a short visit to the UK.
Biden and Sunak are expected to discuss the war in Ukraine. Biden will later meet King Charles at Windsor Castle, before travelling to Lithuania for this year’s Nato summit, which opens tomorrow.
On Friday, the United States announced it would be sending cluster bombs to Ukraine. This hasn’t gone down well in the UK – it’s one of 123 countries which have signed up to an international treaty which bans their use and production – so this could be something the pair discuss.
And then it’s an audience with the King this afternoon as Biden travels to Windsor Castle. He was not, however, at the King’s coronation in May but his wife, First Lady Jill Biden, and his granddaughter went instead. Biden however attended the Queen’s funeral in London last year and visited Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland in April.
Sunak on the other hand visited the US last month, when the UK and US announced an economic partnership called the Atlantic Declaration.
Sunak flew into Washington in June for talks with President Joe Biden.
Ahead of the talks, Sunak laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery.
Sunak also attended the Washington Nationals versus Arizona Diamondbacks baseball game in the US capital.
He apparently declined to throw the ceremonial first pitch and – after the UK and US anthems were played by a military band – said to Nats manager Dave Martinez: “They should put a (cricket) bat in my hand… that’s more my thing.”
source bbc
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