Starmer proves adept at juggling egos and issues at tricky G7 summit
by Peter Walker in Kananaskis from on (#6Y2CW)
PM managed to successfully balance foreign and domestic political considerations during his three days in Canada
There was one defining image from Keir Starmer's intense diplomatic shift at the G7 summit in Canada: him bending at Donald Trump's waist level to collect spilled pages of a UK-US trade deal. Defining, perhaps. But definitely partial.
Arguably more significant was a slightly more prosaic snap slipped out on the Downing Street Flickr feed a day before, showing Starmer engrossed in a chat with four other world leaders, Emmanuel Macron, Mark Carney, Giorgia Meloni and Friedrich Merz.
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