Sir Keir Starmer will gift Joe Biden an Arsenal football shirt with the number 46, a reference to his status as the 46th US president, when the pair meet for the first time on Wednesday.
The new UK prime minister, a passionate football fan and season ticket holder for the north London Premier League club, thought it would “make a personal gift”, a Downing Street official said ahead of the bilateral talks at the White House.
While Starmer will be attending a meeting of Nato leaders at a summit in Washington during the Euros semi-final match between England and Netherlands earlier in the day, he said he hoped his officials would pass him notes with an update on the score.
“England have not missed a penalty under a Labour government in 2024,” he quipped to reporters en route to the summit.
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