I’m leaving for the airport to provide coverage of the newly appointed prime minister’s first overseas visit.
I now recognize the route: to a private airport terminal to board the government aircraft bearing the United Kingdom written down the side, and a painted tail fin featuring the Union flag. What is it like to accompany a prime minister on a foreign trip? My opinion on that can be found here.
The prime minister I have traveled with has changed in the little over two years I have been going on trips like this as the BBC political editor.
To put that into perspective, I was 27 years old when I met my fourth prime minister in my lifetime, having been born in 1980.
And how much this changed for Sir Keir. With the election campaign still in full swing, I interviewed with him one week ago on the yellow plastic chairs of Hucknall Town FC in Nottinghamshire.
Well, as a winner, politics comes at you quickly. President Biden has invited him to the White House today.If this reporter’s experience is any indication, the fog of campaign trail exhaustion has probably not yet fully cleared. How about two transatlantic flights in 72 hours, plus a little jet lag?
Sir Keir has previously met many fellow leaders whose nations are members of NATO, such as German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French President Emmanuel Macron.
However, he has never previously met either President Biden or, for example, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni.
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