Rishi Sunak to move to Washington for talks with Joe Biden
Rishi Sunak will journey to Washington subsequent week for talks with US President Joe Biden.
The prime minister will meet Mr Biden, together with members of Congress and enterprise leaders, on Wednesday 7 June and Thursday 8 June.
The assembly comes after Mr Biden’s journey to Northern Ireland in April to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
The prime minister’s official spokesman mentioned: “Next week on June 7 and 8, the prime minister will visit Washington DC for meetings with President Biden, congressional figures and US business leaders.
“The go to might be a chance to construct on discussions the prime minister and President Biden have had in current months on enhancing the extent of co-operation and co-ordination between the UK and US on the financial challenges that can outline our future, together with securing our provide chains and transitioning to zero carbon economies.”
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“It will also be an opportunity to discuss issues including sustaining our support for Ukraine as we build on the success of our G7 summit in the run-up to the NATO summit.”
Mr Sunak isn’t the one UK politician who’s eager to go to the US.
Last week, Labour’s shadow chancellor Rachel Reeves additionally visited Washington to stipulate the celebration’s financial plans if it will get into authorities.
In a speech at the Peterson Institute in Washington DC, Ms Reeves outlined a mission to make sure financial safety throughout the UK by rebuilding Britain’s “industrial foundation”.
This will imply “investing in the sectors and technologies that will determine our future economic success”, she mentioned.
Ms Reeves dubbed her technique “securonomics”, which she mentioned would imply a much bigger position for the federal government in working the free-market financial system and fostering new partnerships with worldwide allies.
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She additionally heaped reward on Mr Biden for “rebuilding America’s economic security” and for his landmark Inflation Reduction Act.
Mr Biden met the prime minister throughout his journey to Northern Ireland however spent a lot of the four-day go to within the Irish Republic.
The journey got here after the UK and EU agreed and signed the Windsor Framework, which the 2 sides hope will repair the issues with the Northern Ireland Protocol and permit a authorities to be restored.
However, power sharing has not yet returned, with the Democratic Unionist Party refusing to rejoin proceedings at Stormont.
Local elections in Northern Ireland earlier this month noticed Sinn Fein become the largest party of local government for the first time.