The White House has denied Joe Biden is “anti-British,” as the president prepared for talks with U.K Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.
Biden will hold a meeting with the prime minister in Belfast on Wednesday after arriving in Northern Ireland to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement.
Downing Street was forced to deny the meeting was “low-key” after it was reportedly downgraded from a formal bilateral to an informal chat over coffee. One U.S. official joked to the New York Times it was more of a “bi-latte.”
Biden is proud of his Irish heritage and frequently references it, once famously joking to a BBC journalist who asked him a question: “BBC? I’m Irish.”
Arlene Foster, the former Northern Ireland first minister and former leader of the conservative Democratic Unionist Party, told GB News on Wednesday that Biden was opposed to unionism and “hates the United Kingdom.”
But in a briefing to journalists, Amanda Sloat, senior director for Europe at the U.S….
