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A video conference would have been fine decades ago for these shindigs. The summits are just for the leaders and their entourages to have a nice trip and feel superior and elite. They cost the hosts billions in security and logistics. They don’t drink Thunderbird at these gatherings.

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Andrea Hodgson, 78, said it was "pretty awful" the G7 is being held in Cornwall this year.

Mrs Hodgson told the PA news agency: "It's totally inappropriate, it's not climate-friendly, it's a total waste of money. They've closed our hospital, they've closed our police station and they are wasting millions and millions of pounds for international people to have a party.

"It could all be done online. I'm really angry about it - the number of people that are coming down all through lockdown. We've been locked away here so we can't even go outside of our front door."