UK pledges £430m of new foreign aid in first day of Cornwall G7 summit June 11, 2021 Boris Johnson has today pledged to spend £430m extra in foreign aid at the G7 summit in Cornwall today, with funding set to go to boosting education in the world’s poorest countries. Today’s first joint meeting of the summit saw leaders discuss the post-Covid global economic recovery, with Downing Street saying “all girls get a [...]
G7 2021: Boris Johnson welcomes leaders as they take ‘family photo’ June 11, 2021 Boris Johnson has officially welcomed other G7 leaders to the 2021 summit in Cornwall, before taking a socially distanced “family photo”. The seven leaders, who were joined by EU chiefs, and their spouses met with the Prime Minister and Carrie Johnson on Carbis Bay one-by-one before convening for a group photo. Bloomberg reports Dr Jill [...]
G7 2021: Boris Johnson warns against ‘repeating mistakes’ of the post-2008 recovery June 11, 2021 Boris Johnson has called on G7 leaders to not “repeat the mistakes” of the post-2008 financial crisis economic recovery, saying the post-pandemic recovery needs to be “uniform across all parts of societies”. Johnson’s opening remarks before the first joint session of the G7 summit in Cornwall also saw him emphasise the need for the world’s [...]
Pharma executives study whether mix and match vaccines creater stronger Covid immunity June 11, 2021 Some pharmaceutical executives are starting to believe that mixing and matching different types of vaccines may provide stronger immunity against Covid-19. Pierre Morgon, who sits on the boards of Vaccitech and Univercells, said that he is now convinced that one dose of an Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine matched with one Pfizer or Moderna jab is the most [...]
Boris Johnson: Call UK-US partnership the ‘indestructible relationship’ June 11, 2021 Boris Johnson has called for the UK-US partnership to be called the “indestructible relationship” instead of the special relationship. Johnson said after his first in-person meeting with Joe Biden yesterday that you could also call it the “deep and meaningful relationship”, because it is “a relationship that has endured for a very long time, and [...]
Shiver me timbers! G7 leaders to listen to sea shanties on a Cornwall beach with Boris Johnson June 10, 2021 Boris Johnson’s plan to woo some of the most powerful world leaders at the G7 summit will be aided by a group of musical Cornish seamen on Saturday night. World leaders will be treated to a beach BBQ after the second day of the G7 summit in Cornwall, before settling down to listen to a [...]
G7 2021: Boris Johnson says Joe Biden is ‘breath of fresh air’ after first meeting June 10, 2021 Boris Johnson has called his first in-person meeting with US President Joe Biden a “breath of fresh air”, after an extended bilateral in the lead-up to the G7 summit. Johnson and Biden had their first meeting in Cornwall today ahead of the three-day summit, with the pair agreeing to a new Atlantic Charter and a [...]
Johnson and Biden set to agree new Atlantic Charter that includes push to reopen UK-US travel June 9, 2021 Boris Johnson and Joe Biden will meet in Cornwall tomorrow ahead of the G7 summit and sign a new “Atlantic Charter” that is modelled on the 1941 UK-US agreement. The pair will also map out a number of other policy objectives, including a commitment to reopen UK-US travel as soon as possible through a new [...]
‘No breakthroughs’ in crunch UK-EU talks over Northern Ireland Protocol June 9, 2021 The UK and EU are still deadlocked on negotiations about the post-Brexit Northern Ireland Protocol, after a four-hour meeting in London today. Boris Johnson’s UK-EU minister Lord David Frost said there had been “no breakthroughs” in his meeting with European Commission vice president Maros Sefcovic as both sides escalate an ongoing war of words. Sefcovic [...]
UK has ‘no alternative’ to deepening economic ties with China, says minister June 9, 2021 The UK has “no alternative” but to enhance its economic relationship with China in spite of its many human rights abuses, according to a trade minister. Graham Stuart told a House of Lords committee today that “China offers more opportunity to the UK economy than any other market” and that a more comprehensive economic relationship [...]
