Sir Keir Starmer suffered his own embarrassing mishap at the G7 summit when he mistook an interpreter for South Korea's President.
The Prime Minister, who the day before had to spare Donald Trump's blushes when he dropped their trade deal papers on the floor, shook hands with a translator instead of Lee Jae-myung as they met for formal talks.
He then appeared to be unsure where they should stand for photos in several seconds of confusion at the annual gathering of world leaders, being held at a Canadian mountain resort.
After the mix-up, Sir Keir said Britain had a 'good strong relationship' with South Korea and 'want to strengthen it even further' in areas including 'the enhancement of our free trade agreement' and defence.
In response, President Lee, attending as the head of one of the G7's 'outreach' countries in his first foreign trip since being elected two weeks ago, agreed 'we should make progress in modernising our free trade agreement'.
