Are Biden and Sunak really 'rock solid'?

Coffee House Shots

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🗓️ 10 July 2023

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Joe Biden was in London today to meet with Rishi Sunak. The pair had discussions in No. 10, and Biden described US-UK relations as ‘rock solid’. But the pair have recently had disagreements about who the next Nato secretary general should be, and about whether the West should send cluster munitions to Ukraine – so is the relationship really so rosy?

James Heale speaks to Katy Balls and Freddy Gray.

Produced by Max Jeffery.

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0:22.7	Hello and welcome to Coffee House shots of spectators daily politics podcast.
0:26.7	I'm Katie Balls and I'm joined by Freddie Gray, our Deputy Editor and James Hill.
0:32.6	Now Joe Biden is in town. He's met with the Prime Minister this morning, the fifth time in five
0:38.4	months. Freddie, I'm going to ask you a question which I know you're going to roll your eyes
0:42.5	at in advance. Does this mean the special relationship is really special?
0:46.8	It's rock solid again. The special relationship is back with a bang.
0:51.5	Did it ever really go away? The answer is no.
0:56.0	No, it all serious to us. I think the the the peel online for this morning is supposed to be
1:00.2	that Biden has said it's rock solid and that Rishi and him are actually have a perfectly
1:07.6	good relationship and Britain and America are getting on as well as possible.
1:10.3	It's just all the business had to be very short.
1:12.4	And it's all very short and all a bit stayed and he's now done his walk, the god of honor with the
1:19.6	king in which he did look, I'm afraid to say. I always talk about Joe Biden's doderiness but he
1:24.8	did look quite dodery and I did think back to when Donald Trump did the god of honor with the queen
1:30.1	and Trump sort of got it a bit wrong, went ahead of it and then behind it, you know, everybody
1:35.8	went completely bananas at that. And I thought Biden was not exactly a complimentist for this
1:41.5	god of honor and you know people sniggering about it a bit on Twitter but it's not a it's not a
1:47.2	major new story in the way it was with Trump. So it's another one of those things that Republicans
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