He will meet the taoiseach, Simon Harris, at Chequers on Wednesday on the eve of the fourth meeting of the European Political Community (EPC), a conference of more than 45 EU and non-EU leaders, which takes this place this year at Blenheim Palace near Oxford.
He is then expected to have dinner with the French president, Emmanuel Macron, on Thursday evening after the EPC summit.
Rishi Sunak had announced recently that the EPC gathering would bring together "around 50 leaders from across the region to discuss shared challenges such as Ukraine and illegal migration".
It is understood the agenda set by the former prime minister remains the same, but that the Labour government has decided to downgrade migration as a primary topic for the talks.
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