{"id":32931,"date":"2021-06-09T13:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/uk-role-fight-against-corruption-g7-cornwall"},"modified":"2021-06-09T13:00:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T04:00:39","slug":"how-the-uk-lost-its-leading-role-in-the-global-fight-against-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=32931","title":{"rendered":"How the UK lost its leading role in the global fight against corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The UK last hosted the G7 in 2013 but progress on David Cameron\u2019s grand plans has been woeful<\/p>\n<p>The last time the UK chaired a summit of the G7, or the G8 as it was in 2013, David Cameron was in an ebullient mood as he held a closing press conference in glorious late afternoon sunshine by Lough Erne in Northern Ireland. He sensed he had pulled off a diplomatic triumph by putting a new subject at the forefront of world leaders\u2019 agenda: the global fight against corruption.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese are really strong commitments that have never been written down in this sort of way and then signed,\u201d Cameron said. \u201cThese are words on a page that the G8 is going to be judged on year after year after year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/09\/uk-role-fight-against-corruption-g7-cornwall\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The UK last hosted the G7 in 2013 but progress on David Cameron\u2019s grand plans has been woefulThe last time the UK chaired a summit of the G7, or the G8 as it was in 2013, David Cameron was in an ebullient mood as he held a closing press conference in g&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2243,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1873,531,6,50,1779,2211,637,4,419,765,52,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alexei-navalny","category-boris-johnson","category-business","category-china","category-corporate-governance","category-david-cameron","category-g7","category-politics","category-russia","category-tax-havens","category-uk-news","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2243"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32932,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32931\/revisions\/32932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}