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Welcome to Coffee House Shots for spectators.

I'm Fraser Nelson and I'm joined by Isabel Hardman and James Rosythe.

It's the G7 Foreign Ministers meeting in Lancaster House, the first time they've met in

person for almost two years. This is of course ahead of G7 summit, which Britain is hosting in Cornwall next

month. James, should we care? Yes, I think we should, because this is not only the first time

the G7 foreign ministers met in person for almost two years. It's Anthony Blinken, Joe Biden's

first Secretary of State's first G7 foreign ministers meeting. And you've also seen invited Australia, India, South Korea, South Africa.

And they've all come in person, isn't the Zoom meeting?

Yes.

And this is all part of a British attempt to form a kind of what they've called the D-10,

which is essentially a democratic alliance designed to contain China.

And I mean, there is a big question here.

But it's becoming increasingly clear that one of the big pillars of Joe Biden's foreign policy is going to be the idea that the democratic world needs to push back in a kind of coordinated fashion against Russia and China.

And I think it is fair to say that there isn't yet unanimity in the democratic world

about how far that should go or how sensible idea it is.

This meeting is an important question as to whether they can begin to come to agreement

on the ways in which you would push back against Russia and China.

And I think that we will get a tell on how meaningful communicate here is

of how realistic this British aim of using its G7 presidency

to advance this kind of democratic agenda and push to almost expand the G7 to into this D10 is.

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