#G7Summit: Joe Biden lands in Britain for his first overseas visit since becoming US President #AirForceOne

Joe Biden has landed in Britain this evening for his first overseas visit since becoming US President.

Mr Biden and his wife Jill, a university professor, touched down at RAF Mildenhall, Suffolk in Air Force One just after 7.30pm as they kicked off an eight-day trip to Europe. The visit will take in this week's G7 summit as well as face-to-face meetings with the Queen and Boris Johnson. 

A large crowd of US Air Force personnel and their families were waiting for him inside a hangar at RAF Mildenhall, where he is due to address them later this evening. 

The President is visiting RAF Mildenhall because the Suffolk base is home to the 100th Air Refuelling Wing, the only permanent US Air Force air refuelling wing in the European theatre. 

The crowd rose to their feet shortly before 8pm in preparation for his arrival, with US flags decorating the walls along with a Union flag. In a speech, the President said the US-UK alliance was the 'strongest military and political alliance in the history of the world', but added it needed to be 'modernised' to protect against past threats and new challenges. He will now meet US military personnel stationed at the base before heading to Carbis Bay near St Ives, where the leaders of Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Japan and Canada will gather for three days to discuss the pandemic and climate change among other issues. 

Mr Biden is scheduled to meet the Prime Minister for face-to-face talks tomorrow - the first time the two men will have met in person - before the G7 Summit formally gets underway on Friday. When the summit ends on Sunday, the President and First Lady will meet the Queen at Windsor Castle. 

Mr Biden will then depart for Brussels where he will attend a NATO summit and a joint US-EU summit before then heading to Geneva for a bilateral showdown with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Culled From Daily Mail