G7 speaker conference in Chorley

On the world stage’: Chorley prepares to host G7 speakers’ conference.When Nancy Pelosi, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, suggested to Lindsay Hoyle, her UK counterpart, that they hold the G7 speakers’ conference in “his district”, she might not have realised how enthusiastically the Lancastrian would embrace the idea.

Hoyle said that Pelosi had asked, “We always go to London, can we get out of London?”, and so this weekend politicians from the world’s richest nations will be descending on the Lancashire market town of Chorley.

And what will Hoyle be serving his counterparts from the legislatures of Canada, France, Japan, Germany, Italy and the US? He was excited to nod to a local story (although some historians doubt its veracity) that during a visit to the area in 1617, King James I was so enamoured with a joint of beef, he drew his sword and knighted it “Sir Loin”.

“I said ‘let’s give them a taste of Lancashire beef – the sirloin that was knighted in Chorley – the face that we’ve got Morecambe Bay shrimps, Lancashire cheese, Chorley cakes … we’ve got some real things for people to remember. I think that’s important to them as well as myself, to actually show that there’s great agricultural produce in Lancashire,” he said.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/17/chorley-lancashire-prepares-to-host-g7-speakers-conference-lindsay-hoyle

So if you are in Chorley and see a lot of armed police, don't worry.

What food/drink from Lancashire would you feed them

black pudding and tripe

Did you enjoy the Lancashire hotpot, Madam Speaker?"

https://twitter.com/i/status/1439222676640370699

I bet they didn't get school dinners