it is genuinely wonderful
to see everybody in person i can't tell
you what a difference it makes we've all
been going through
the most wretched pandemic
our countries have faced for our
lifetimes
uh maybe longer much longer and
i actually think this is a meeting that
genuinely needs to happen
because we need to make sure that we
learn the lessons from the pandemic we
may need to make sure that we
don't repeat some of the errors that we
doubtless made
in the course of the last 18 months or
so
and we need to make sure that we
now allow our economies to recover
and i think that they
have the potential to bounce back very
strongly
and there's all sorts of reasons for
being
optimistic but it is vital
that we don't repeat the mistake of the
last great
crisis the last great economic recession
in 2008
uh when the recovery was not
uniform across all parts of society and
i think what's gone wrong with this
uh pandemic award risks being a lasting
scar is that i think the inequalities
may be
entrenched and we need to make sure that
as we
recover we level up across our societies
and we
we build back better and i actually
think that we have a
huge opportunity to do that because
as g7 we are united in our
our vision for a cleaner greener
world a solution to the problems of
climate change and in those ideas in
those technologies
and which we're all addressing together
i think there are the there is the
potential to generate
many many millions of high-wage
high-skill
jobs and i think that is what
the people of the uh of our countries
now want us to
to focus on they want us to be sure that
we're beating the pandemic
together and discussing how we'll never
have a repeat of what we've seen but
also that we're building back
better together and building that
greener
and building that fairer and building
back more
equal and uh how shall i move in
in a more gender neutral and perhaps
like a more feminine way
how about that apart from anything else
so
those are some of the objectives that we
have before us at
carber's bay thank you all very very
much