Giorgia Meloni appears to ask the UK PM, who has no formal bilateral meetings with G7 leaders on day one, if he is OK
Rishi Sunak has insisted he was not being snubbed by other leaders after his first day at the G7 summit ended without any bilateral meetings with his counterparts and he had an awkward encounter with Giorgia Meloni.
Meloni, the Italian prime minister who is one of Sunak’s closest international allies, appeared to ask him sympathetically: “Are you OK?” as they embraced on his arrival in Puglia for the G7 leaders’ summit on Thursday. Sunak’s Conservative party is languishing 20 points behind Labour in opinion polls and is widely expected to lose the general election in three weeks’ time.
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/jun/13/rishi-sunak-denies-he-is-being-snubbed-after-awkward-start-to-g7-summit
Author : Eleni Courea in Puglia
Publish date : 2024-06-13 19:18:31
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