The G7 summit got formally underway on Sunday, June 26. UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson, quite naturally, felt impelled to break the ice by demonstrating the quality of his aristocratic schoolboy wit acquired in his Eton days. He opened with a verbal gambit aiming at reassuring the others that the leaders collectively represented a privileged elite for whom anything goes. The Telegraph offered the scoop that “Volodymyr Zelensky may be invited on a state visit to the UK to bolster Boris Johnson’s leadership credentials.” The Ukrainian president has become the political rock star of the year. “At the G7 summit,” The Guardian reports, “Boris Johnson said there had not been a row about the Northern Ireland protocol summit.

Source: The North Africa Journal June 28, 2022 16:26 UTC