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Sunak/Biden, 2023
Rishi Sunak attending a bilateral meeting with Joe Biden in the Oval Office on 8 June 2023. Sunak was on his first visit to the US after becoming prime minister and the two leaders discussed the Russia-Ukraine war and strengthening the UK-US economic partnership
Photograph: Niall Carson/Getty Images
Truss/Biden, 2022
Liz Truss was not invited to Washington during her brief tenure as PM, but met President Biden at the 77th session of the UN general assembly in New York on 21 September 2022 when she was foreign secretary
Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images
Johnson/Trump, 2019
Boris Johnson with Donald Trump at the UN general assembly in New York in September 2019. They did not meet at the White House during Johnson’s time as prime minister, though Johnson cancelled a planned 2020 visit
Photograph: Evan Vucci/AP
May/Trump, 2017
Theresa May and Trump walk along the colonnade of the West Wing at the White House on 27 January 2017
Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
May/Trump, 2017
Trump and May hold a joint news conference at the White House on 27 January 2017
Photograph: Carlos Barría/Reuters
Cameron/Obama, 2010
Barack Obama meets David Cameron in the Oval Office on 20 July 2010
Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images
Cameron/Obama, 2010
President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron talk on the south lawn of the White House
Photograph: Hum Images/Universal Images Group/Getty Images
Brown/Obama, 2009
Obama and Gordon Brown walk from the Oval Office after their meeting on 3 March 2009, to have a working lunch at the White House
Photograph: Ron Edmonds/AP
Blair/Bush, 2006
Tony Blair and George W Bush leave the East Room of the White House after speaking to reporters about Iraq on 25 May 2006
Photograph: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters
Blair/Bush, 2004
Blair and Bush hold a news conference in the East Room of the White House on 12 November 2004 after discussing their plan for Middle East diplomacy after the death of Yasser Arafat, the veteran Palestinian leader
Photograph: Brooks Kraft/Corbis/Getty Images
Blair/Bush, 2001
Bush and Blair speak to the press in the White House on 7 November 2001. The president welcomed the UK PM – his top ally in the ‘global war on terror’ – to the White House for talks aimed at bolstering support for the campaign
Photograph: Shawn Thew/AFP/Getty Images
Blair/Bush, 2001
Bush and Blair straighten their ties as the UK PM speaks to his senior adviser, Alastair Campbell, in the Oval Office before meeting the press on 7 November 2001
Photograph: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Blair/Bush, 2001
Bush meets Blair alongside the US secretary of state, Colin Powell, and the national security adviser, Condoleezza Rice, in the Oval Office on 7 November 2001
Photograph: Eric Draper/White House/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images
Blair/Clinton, 1999
Blair shakes hands with Bill Clinton at the commemorative ceremony of Nato’s 50th anniversary in Washington DC on 23 April 1999
Photograph: Getty Images
Blair/Clinton, 1998
Blair and Clinton delivering a joint radio address from the White House on 6 February 1998
Photograph: Sharon Farmer/White House/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images
Blair/Clinton, 1998
Blair and Clinton face reporters during a joint press conference at the White House on 6 February 1998. The two leaders discussed a wide range of topics including the situation in Iraq
Photograph: Tim Sloan/AFP/Getty Images
Major/Clinton, 1995
Clinton laughs at a comment made by John Major during a joint 4 April 1995 press conference at the White House. Clinton and Major minimised their past differences over Northern Ireland by praising each other and citing common positions on Bosnia, Iraq and Russia
Photograph: Joshua Roberts/AFP/Getty Images
Major/Clinton, 1995
Major and Clinton walk through the White House Rose Garden on 4 April 1995. During the prime minister’s visit, they discussed a range of topics including Nato expansion
Photograph: Joshua Roberts/AFP/Getty Images
Major/Bush, 1992
Major leaves the White House with George HW Bush on 18 December 1992, to speak to reporters about their meeting with the European Commission president, Jacques Delors. The prime minister told reporters that the US and the EC were aiming to reach a global trade agreement by mid-January 1993
Photograph: AFP/Getty Images
Thatcher/Bush, 1990
Margaret Thatcher and Bush Sr hold a portico-framed press briefing on 6 August 1990 after a meeting about the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
Photograph: Dirck Halstead/Getty Images
Thatcher/Reagan, 1985
Thatcher and Ronald Reagan on a red carpet in front of the White House portico on 20 February 1985
Photograph: Peter Jordan/Popperfoto/Getty Images
Thatcher/Reagan, 1982
Reagan and Thatcher at the White House on 23 June 1982
Photograph: David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images
Thatcher/Carter, 1979
Thatcher speaks at an arrival ceremony in her honour at the White House on 17 December 1979. Listening beside her are the first lady, Rosalynn Carter, and President Jimmy Carter
Photograph: Benjamin E Forte/Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images
Callaghan/Carter, 1977
The Carters are joined by James Callaghan and his wife, Audrey Callaghan (both in centre) on the White House’s Blue Room Balcony after a state arrival ceremony on 10 March 1977
Photograph: Consolidated News Pictures/Getty Images
Callaghan/Carter, 1977
Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter host a state dinner for James Callaghan on 10 March 1977
Photograph: World Politics Archive/Alamy
Wilson/Ford, 1975
Harold Wilson and Gerald Ford on the White House lawn during an official visit
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Heath/Nixon, 1973
Edward Heath and Richard Nixon have a fireside chat at the White House on 1 February 1973
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Heath/Nixon, 1970
Heath speaks after being welcomed to the White House by Nixon on 17 December 1970. The prime minister visited for talks on the Middle East situation and bilateral trade programmes
Photograph: Bettmann Archive
Wilson/Johnson, 1967
Lyndon Johnson meeting Harold Wilson. The Anglo-American special relationship was strained by differences over the US’s Vietnam policy at the time
Photograph: Everett/Shutterstock
Douglas-Home/Johnson, 1964
Alec Douglas-Home makes a public address as President Johnson looks on in Washington DC on 14 February 1964
Photograph: Rolls Press/Popperfoto/Getty Images
Macmillan/Eisenhower, 1960
Harold Macmillan with Dwight Eisenhower at Camp David on 15 March 1960
Photograph: Ed Clark/The Life Picture Collection/Shutterstock
Eden/Eisenhower, 1956
Anthony Eden met President Eisenhower at the White House on 30 January 1956. Eisenhower addressed US Congress and they issued a joint declaration on common principles
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
Churchill/Truman, 1952
The 33rd US president, Harry Truman, with Winston Churchill in the library of the British embassy in Washington before dinner in January 1952
Photograph: Keystone/Getty Images
Attlee/Truman, 1950
Harry S Truman meets Clement Attlee in Washington DC on 6 December 1950 to discuss Nato’s military strength. Also pictured are the US secretary of state, Dean Acheson, and the US secretary of defence, George C Marshall
Photograph: PhotoQuest/Getty Images
Churchill/Roosevelt, 1942
Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt at the White House during the second world war on 19 June 1942
Photograph: Universal History Archive/Getty Images
MacDonald/Roosevelt, 1933
Ramsay MacDonald with Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt at the White House on 26 April 1933
Photograph: Gamma-Keystone-France/Getty Images
MacDonald/Hoover, 1929
Herbert Hoover (right) and MacDonald at the White House on 5 October 1929
Photograph: Everett Collection Inc/Alamy
