British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak visited the White House to meet with US President Joe Biden Thursday to culminate his two-day trip to Washington.
During the meeting, he commended the "indispensable alliance" between the UK and the US as both countries revealed, among others, a new transatlantic trade and defense security deal. Sunak added the UK was a "confident, proud and free" nation after leaving the European Union.
Aside from trade and defense agreements, the Atlantic Declaration, as it was called, included commitments on a data protection deal.
However, the declaration fell short of a full free-trade deal with the United States. Other areas the Atlantic Declaration covered include AI, information sharing in crises, 5G and 6G, and civil nuclear power.
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Another key agenda both Sunak and Biden talked about was the war in Ukraine and how they would continue to support Kyiv against the Kremlin's aggression.
Biden recalled how his and Sunak's predecessors, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, met in the Oval Office as they asserted "the strength of the partnership between Great Britain and the United States was [the] strength of the free world." "I still think there's truth to that assertion," he added.
Yesterday (June 7), Sunak visited the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery and met with leaders of the US Congress, as well as with business leaders. He also attended a Washington Nationals baseball game as part of his two-day visit to Washington.
Shortly before departing for Washington, Sunak announced several US companies were making $17 billion (£14 billion) in new economic investments in the UK
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