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9.09am BST
Scott Morrison has landed in the UK and immediately launched a love bomb in Boris Johnson's direction, declaring the UK leader to be a big, bold thinker". Morrison is one of the G7 Plus invitees to the Cornwell summit, where he'll be chatting to world leaders in person, for one of the first times since the pandemic began.
Climate, and in particular, Australia's lack of climate policy is one of the big issues, but upon arriving in the UK, Morrison was keen to speak about commonalities. One of those being Johnson's vaccinate the world' push.
I mean, we've put in place supply contracts, you know, many times over what is needed for the Australian population. We did that to ensure we were covering as many bases as we possibly could and so that puts us in a very strong position, as we'd always hoped to, to be supporting not only our own region - and I think what's quite unique about Australia's contribution here of 20 million doses is where we're going to send them and these aren't going into large warehouses centrally that could end up going anywhere - we want to ensure that we're taking responsibility for our region, our family in our region. We've done that all along.
8.57am BST
Asked about Boris Johnson's push to have the world vaccinated by the end of next year, Morrison says the UK PM is a big, bold thinker".
He says:
Well, no one is ever going to accuse the prime minister of Great Britain of lacking ambition when it comes to anything. I think that is one of his great assets, he is a big, bold thinker and he gets out there and I'm happy to get in there behind him with this, as I'm sure all the other leaders are. It does require that sort of an effort and I think he has laid that marker down quite firmly and I think that is a good thing and very consistent with his well-known character.
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