LeaderChip! Joe Biden’s team reportedly fell in love with fish and chips on their G7 visit to Cornwall
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S President Joe Biden’s team love fish and chips so much they ordered portions sent to Heathrow from ‘every chippy in Hounslow’. The leader of the free world visited Heathrow airport after the G7 Summit meeting in Cornwall recently and having fallen in love with the great British delicacy, his team wanted to take every opportunity they could to enjoy it. That’s according to Ady Dolan, an air traffic controller at the airport in West London, who wrote about the episode in his blog. Mr Biden was invited to tea with the Queen at Windsor Castle, to where he had to travel via Heathrow on Airforce 1. Mr Dolan wrote: “During their time at the G7 summit in beautiful Cornwall, the
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President’s team became partial to fish and chips, and who can blame them? “In fact, they loved it so much that while Mr Biden was in Windsor, a call went out to just about every chippy in the Hounslow area to deliver a few dozen portions to Heathrow Airport. “Good to know the Great British takeaway has done its bit for transatlantic relations.” The airport hadn’t hosted a presidential visit since 2008, at which time they had around three months to prepare this time they had only 10 days. The NATS, Heathrow Airport, NPAS – the Met Police helicopter unit – and various US agencies including the Secret Service and Marine Corps were called in for safety precautions. Mr Dolan said: “Obviously, safety and security for a visit like this, however fleeting, is hugely important, but so too is ensuring that the President doesn’t disrupt or delay anyone else travelling through the airport. Everything ran smoothly in the end. The President came and went with no issues, though that’s not to say it wasn’t stressful for those organising it. Mr Dolan added: “I’m not sure I’d rush to help arrange a Presidential visit in 10 days again, but it was fantastic to see everything go so well.” Did you serve the president or any of the G7? Email austen@chippychat.co.uk
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