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Ahead of a working dinner, the Japanese PM said that Sir Keir "looked well", adding she had been invited to his Chequers country estate later this year.
From BBC • Jan. 31, 2026
“We’ll get by with a little help from our friends,” Denmark’s prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, wrote in a guest book at Chequers on Thursday, referencing the Beatles lyric while visiting her British counterpart.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2026
Maybe even just a bit of a rest with the family at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat.
From BBC • Jan. 4, 2026
At the same time, the US president travelled to Chequers, the prime minister's grace-and-favour residence in Buckinghamshire, for diplomatic talks.
From BBC • Sep. 18, 2025
Dickie wrote out their accounts on a large flagstone near the horse trough by the "Chequers," with a bit of billiard chalk that a man gave him.
From Harding's luck by Millar, H. R. (Harold Robert)
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