UK PM Sunak to host European Political Community meeting in July

British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will host European leaders at a meeting of the European Political Community at Blenheim Palace on July 18, the government said on Tuesday, finally putting an end to speculation over the cause for delay in setting a date.

Some had suggested Britain was reluctant to set a date for the meeting of the European Political Community, a group of more than 40 European states formed in 2022 after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, because Sunak was considering holding a national election in May.

Sunak said last week he would not hold a general election in early May, in the strongest indication yet that the national vote would take place later this year.

Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Rishi Sunak will host a meeting of the European Political Community at the palace, Winston Churchill’s birthplace, on July 18. Photo: PA via AP

“I am delighted that the UK will host the next European Political Community meeting at the historic Blenheim Palace,” Sunak said in a statement, referring to the birthplace and ancestral home of former prime minister Winston Churchill.

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