As Keir Starmer arrived at the White House, Joe Biden greeted him warmly with an invitation to enter not only the heart of the building but also the prestigious league of world leaders.
The day before his visit for the NATO summit on Tuesday, Starmer had admitted that since Labour's landslide election victory just a week prior, it felt like a whirlwind experience. He expressed how he went from checking into a small bed and breakfast in Carmarthen to preparing for the Nato meeting within a short span of time.
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