Sky News reports that Rachel Reeves is set to revive the UK-China Economic and Financial Dialogue talks in January. That will be the first time since 2019…

Reeves is to go to China for the event to revive trade and investment ties as the Treasury conducts “detailed discussions” ahead of the EFD. The resistance of the Tory government to China’s pernicious human rights violations, behaviour over Covid, and destruction of democracy in Hong Kong led to plans for the last one in 2022 being abandoned. Now that Peter Mandelson has criticised the “Tory boycott” of the CCP it looks like it’s goodbye to those morals…