By Ben Kerrigan-
U.S president Joe Biden has met with Rishi Sunak in the Uk in an important meeting between the two national leaders, amid a divided perspective on the important issue of whether Ukraine should join NATO or not.
A meeting between leaders of the UK and U.S always carries great importance, given the significance of their historical and political bond.
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Mr Biden told Sunak back in June that the US-UK special relationship was in “real good shape” and that the US has no “closer ally than Great Britain.
However, analysts do not think the relationship is developing as well as once hoped.
Mr Sunak said and Joe Biden would consider how they can strengthen their co-operation, joint economic security to the benefit of our citizens.
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Sunak said ‘We stand as two of the firmest allies in that alliance and I know we’ll want to do everything we can to strengthen Euro-Atlantic security.’
The pair appear to be on divergent parts as far as their political vision for Ukraine and The EU.
Mr Biden is actively pushing for the current European Commission president to take charge of the military alliance, a woman the tories say was the ‘worst ever’ German defence minister before becoming commission president. On her watch Berlin’s troops notoriously trained with broomsticks on Nato exercises because they did not have enough rifles.
Mr Biden told CNN in an interview broadcast as he set off on his journey that Ukraine was not ‘ready for membership’ in NATO.
‘I don’t think there is unanimity in NATO about whether or not to bring Ukraine into the NATO family now, at this moment, in the middle of a war,’ he said.
He noted that NATO members are committed every inch of each other’s territory, while war is raging inside Ukraine.
‘If the war is going on, then we’re all in war,’ he said.
The US president has insisted that the US will supply Kyiv with cluster bombs – weapons the UK is committed to shunning. The UK is one of 123 signatories to a convention banning the controversial munitions’ use in warfare, due to their devastating impact on civilians
On Monday Mr Biden will be received by the King at Windsor Castle where the pair will discuss the climate crisis.
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