Rishi Sunak heads to Lithuania today for the Nato leaders’ summit (which means he will be missing another Prime Minister’s Questions). The trip comes after Sunak met one-on-one with president Biden at 10 Downing Street – a visit which is being heralded in government as a success after the pair avoided amplifying a lingering disagreement over the US government’s transfer of cluster bombs to Ukraine.
While Sunak was critical of the use of the weapons ahead of the visit (a legal obligation of the UK government as a result of its membership of the Convention on Cluster Munitions) he chose not to bring it up and reprimand Biden on the visit. This allowed the US president to wax lyrical about the relationship being ‘rock solid’.
The window of opportunity to try to end the conflict and help Ukraine could be short
As for the Nato summit, the reason it is being held in Vilnius is, of course, down to the rotation of locations for these events.
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