Trade minister Chris Bryant has hit back at Donald Trump for saying Starmer cosying up to China is “dangerous“. He told BBC Breakfast:
“Yes, he is wrong, and I say this precisely because, apart from anything else, he himself said in his own statement that he is a friend with President Xi, and as I understand it, President Trump is going to China himself in April.”
Even the pack of Lobby journalists brought along to report on the trip are scratching their heads at what Britain has actually managed to get out of it. Xi Jinping is laughing…
Lord Khan in the Telegraph: “I hope, and I say this in a non-pompous way, that the public service I do will bring rewards in this world and the hereafter,” he says. “I’m hoping the work I do is earning me Brownie points.”