British PM Keir Starmer says Biden ‘deserves credit’ and reveals details of first weekly audience with King Charles

Sir Keir Starmer said that Joe Biden “deserves credit” for the success of the Nato summit and that the president was “on good form” during their recent in-person conversation.

The prime minister was asked about Biden’s mental capability in a new interview with CNN, in which he also discussed the possibility of working with Donald Trump and his weekly meetings with King Charles III.

Starmer recently attended the Nato summit in Washington DC alongside other world leaders including Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky – his first major outing on the world diplomacy stage.

In an interview with CNN on Friday, he was asked about the continuing concern over Biden’s mental acuity, following a string of serious gaffes and his disastrous debate performance last month.

“I yesterday spent 45 minutes with the President,” he told the news network’s Jake Tapper. “We’d spoken on the phone, as you can imagine, but this was an opportunity to discuss a number of issues.

“We probably went on for the best part of an hour, covered a lot of ground, and he was in good form.

“It was also a really good opportunity for me, as a new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, just literally in week one, to speak to the President about the special relationship, which matters to him, matters to me.”

Starmer also reiterated that he and the UK had “unshakeable support” for Nato and praised the success of the summit. “We’ve had two days of the council now with actually a very successful outcome – president Zelensky [said] ‘this is a success’,” he said

“And so I do think [Biden] deserves credit for that.”

On Thursday evening Biden gave a high-stakes press conference at the Nato summit, shortly after introducing Zelensky as “president Putin.”

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