The 31st G8 summit was held on 6–8 July 2005 at the Gleneagles Hotel in Auchterarder, Scotland and hosted by Prime Minister Tony Blair. The locations of previous G8 summits to have been hosted by the
Protesters clashing with the Greater Manchester Police officers who were deployed to Edinburgh at the start of the summit
UK Prime Minister Tony Blair speaks on the London bombings with the summit attendees behind him. Left to right (front row): Lula da Silva, Gerhard Schröder, Hu Jintao, George W. Bush, Jacques Chirac, Manmohan Singh, Vladimir Putin, Vicente Fox; (back row): Paul Martin, José Barroso, Thabo Mbeki, Silvio Berlusconi, Kofi Annan, Junichiro Koizumi, and Paul Wolfowitz