National security comes first, minister says amid reports Chinese embassy in London nearing approval – UK politics live

Liz Kendall says ‘we are clear-eyed about our relationship with China and national security will always come first’Here is the agenda for the day, according to the PA news agency:Friday: Keir Starmer has arrived in Johannesburg for the G20 summit in South Africa. The pime minister is expected to have bilats at 9.20am before meeting business leaders and visiting a train depot at 11.55am.We are clear-eyed about our relationship with China and national security will always come first. That is absolutely non-negotiable.But where we can safely work with China, whether that’s on the economy or areas like research, that’s what we’ll do, because we want to get the best outcome for the British public.I don’t know about the prime minister’s diary plans for the new year, but what I do know is that he takes all of those issues extremely seriously. Continue reading...

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