Joe Biden branded 'most anti-British president in living memory' in brutal attack
Joe Biden is the 'most anti-British president in living memory' and his behaviour is 'outrageous' according to a former senior civil servant
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Joe Biden is the "most anti-British president in living memory" and his behaviour is "outrageous", according to a former senior civil servant.
David Mellor, the ex-Chief Secretary to the Treasury, shared his fury at the US president's push to make Ursula Von der Leyen Nato chief in a scathing attack.
On Tuesday, Nato allies agreed to a one-year extension for Jens Stoltenberg, who has been secretary general since October 2014, to head the alliance until autumn 2024.
A Nato source claims Biden has been trying to convince Von der Leyen, an ex-German defence minister, to be his successor.
Speaking on GB News, Mellor said: "I think that Joe Biden is the most anti-British president in living memory and possibly even in the memory of the quite long day.
"It's quite outrageous the way he behaves. He is a let's pretend Irishman dressing up in the green and prancing around like some sad old pensioner on a holiday in the Emerald Isle.
"In fact his links to the Emerald Isle are no greater than his links to England, but basically this man has got it in for us."
Biden is set to travel to the UK to meet King Charles and Rishi Sunak later this month.
It will be the first time the president will have met the King since the Coronation in May.
Talking to Eamonn Holmes and Isabel Webster about Biden's push for Von der Leyen to be Nato chief, Mellor added: "Where we've got to with him is that he is prepared to try and put in charge of NATO a woman who was for six years the Defence Secretary in Germany and was awful and failed to keep up.
"Germany still doesn't pay the 2 per cent of GDP for defence and basically Biden appears to think that that is what Europe needs.
"And do you know what I find so awful? This will be a test not only of Biden, because we know what he'll flunk it, it will be a test of Rishi Sunak.
David Mellor said Joe Biden's behaviour is 'outrageous' and is using his trip to the UK as a 'photo opportunity'
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"Biden is coming over next week, he just wants some photo opportunities with the royals. The Germans unfortunately don't have royals.
"So basically the problem that Biden has is that he wants the publicity of being with the British Royals, but he doesn't want to have to think he will tolerate the Brits."
Earlier this year, Biden stopped in Belfast to mark the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, and briefly met Sunak.
After the UK, he will travel to Vilnius in Lithuania for the Nato summit, which takes place on July 11 and 12.