Keir Starmer has said that he doesn’t believe that the US leader is “senile”
Newly appointed UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has brushed aside concerns over US President Joe Biden’s age and mental fitness, praising his behavior during a bilateral meeting in Washington, DC.
The leaders met at the White House on Wednesday and discussed the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, as well as trade and climate change.
When asked later by the BBC if he thought that Biden “is senile,” Starmer replied: “No.”
“We had a really good bilateral [meeting] yesterday. We were billed at 45 minutes [but] we went on for the better part of an hour. We went through a huge number of issues at pace,” the prime minister said. He added that Biden “was actually [in] really good form, and absolutely across all the details.”
The conversation was productive, Starmer said, adding that Biden “showed incredible leadership.”