Sky News was brought to a halt on Sunday afternoon for a breaking news announcement involving Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer. Presenter Sean Fletcher interrupted the regular broadcast as the breaking news banner flashed across screens to report that the Prime Minister had welcomed Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to Downing Street.
Key Meeting Ahead of G7 Summit
Fletcher stated: “Prime Minister Keir Starmer has welcomed his Japanese counterpart ahead of the G7 summit in France next week. The PM is meeting Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi inside Number 10. The UK and Japan are set to agree that £18 billion worth of investment deals are expected to create tens of thousands of jobs.”
The journalist elaborated on the discussions, saying: “Discussions will also include helping UK defence firms access Japanese investment, and we were obviously hearing from defence firms during the week with all of the discussions around defence with the resignation of the Defence Secretary and Dan Jarvis taking over, and the issues around how much we will be spending on our defence industry.”
He added: “Well, that will obviously be a boost if they were open to the Japanese market.”
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