Latest updates: US president to meet UK prime minister before giving a speech at Ulster University
Chris Mason, the BBC’s political editor, has described Joe Biden’s visit to Northern Ireland as a “blink and you’ll miss it” trip. By the end of the day he will be in Ireland, where he will be staying until Friday.
Even the meeting between Biden and Rishi Sunak this morning does not seem likely to much of an event. While Downing Street was describing it yesterday as a “bilateral”, the term for a proper leader-to-leader meeting, the White House was describing it as Biden and Sunak having a coffee together. No 10 rejected claims that meant it would be low-key.
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