A Conservative shadow minister warned the UK could "fall further behind" on growth targets following the Chancellor's "desperate" attempts to save the economy.
US senators reportedly deliver file that could further reduce Labour peer’s chances of being accepted as ambassador by Donald Trump
A dossier on Lord Peter Mandelson's links to China has been passed to the FBI, casting further doubt over his impending confirmation as Sir Keir Starmer's US ambassador. Mandelson's file, put together by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China,
Questions have been raised over the Labour ... party of interfering in the US election. On Saturday, The Independent reported that the incoming president was considering declining Sir Keir’s choice for ambassador, in part over his perceived links to China.
Purpose of Wang’s visit was to hold a Britain-China strategic dialogue for the first time since 2018. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Britain's Labour government has characterized its China policy under the catchy slogan of the three Cs, for “cooperate, challenge and compete.” It may soon need to add a fourth C: for “cave.”
China's foreign ministry announced Friday that it would send ... behind Prime Minister Keir Starmer's ruling Labour Party.
Starmer’s Government is re-making the age-old mistakes in China diplomacy all over again. Those who frame the debate as a choice between whether or not to engage Beijing are proposing a false dichotomy. It is not about whether to talk or trade with China, but how? On whose terms, with what criteria, on what conditions and with what objectives?
Online fast-fashion retailer Shein requires its contract manufacturers to only source cotton from approved regions, which do not include China, for products it sells in the United States, its biggest market,
BEIJING: China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi is due to visit Britain next month to hold talks with his UK counterpart David Lammy, The Guardian reported on Sunday (Jan 26).
Labour has accused the Conservatives of showing “some real brass neck” after a shadow minister said Britain needed a better “work ethic”. Asked whether he thought Britain was missing “a belief in hard work”, shadow home secretary Chris Philp told the BBC’s Political Thinking podcast: “I do a bit.”
It has been a wild January for Rachel Reeves and frankly for economics in the UK and the world.When Labour swept to victory last summer, Reeves pledged she would be an "iron" chancellor, reining in public spending and improving the lives of working people through growing the economy.