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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shorts,

Spectators Daily Politics Podcast.

I'm whisper Harman and I'm joined by James Forsyter and Fraser Nelson.

Well, Rishi Sunak is in Bali today for the G20 meeting,

which is going to be quite an awkward one,

just in terms of the attendees, James Phyllisyn.

So, this is the first meeting at which a kind of senior Russian person

is going to be present alongside leaders of the Western democracies that are

supporting Ukraine. So, so glad Aber of the Russian foreign

minister is going, Vladimir Putin's place.

There's already been all sorts of diplomatic kind of

ruckians about trying to avoid a photo with him in and how to handle his

presence, especially because Lavrov has a reputation for being very

kind of confrontational, trying to create kind of

moments to kind of to assert Rishi Sunak.

Remember that press conference with Liz Truss before the

invasion of Ukraine? But Lavrov has appears to have been

taken unwell when he arrived in Indonesia.

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