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

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Starmer and his four mates getting an impromptu glass of wine together may have been about finding the dutch courage to deal with Donald Trump, speculates David Maddox at the G7 in Canada

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ummits 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.