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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
David Maddox

How Starmer’s impromptu glass of wine with four pals reveals the G7 has become the G6 plus 1

Summits are usually very formal, almost scripted events where leaders of the world’s biggest democracies meet to discuss all the issues their officials have already negotiated before. But on the odd occasion humanity breaks out from the robotic formal proceedings.

Such a moment came as Keir Starmer - a man normally famed for his aversion to the spontaneous - came out of an apparently agreeable bilateral meeting with the Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.

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