It is a pleasure to see the commitment by so many of the world's leaders to reasserting the importance of international co-operation and a rules based world order to secure our prosperity, stability and health. This comes happily at the same time as President Biden has recommitted the US to play a leading role in the efforts of liberal democracies around the world to protect and defend the values in which we believe. I hope that extreme nationalists wherever they are will take note.

President Macron offers a wise and hopeful way forward which rejects negative and self-harming nationalism and gives the Europe of which we are all a part a road map for the future.