LABOUR MPs are turning fire on Rachel Reeves for cosying up to China as their cheap cars flood the UK. Blair McDougall slammed the Government for failing to impose tariffs on Chinese electric
Ms Reeves hailed the trip as a ‘significant milestone’ in Labour’s re-engagement with China, saying she had agreed deals worth £600 million over the next five years
The Treasury said a stable relationship with China would support economic growth - but critics said the chancellor should have stayed at home to address the market turmoil.
Rachel Reeves's trip to China – the first by a British chancellor since 2019 - was always going to be controversial. In recent years Conservative governments have been keeping Beijing at arm's length - amid concern about espionage, the situation in Hong Kong, and the treatment of the Uyghurs.
Rachel Reeves' visit to Beijing is "perverse, wrong, misguided, and unhelpful" and shows the lengths to which this Government is willing to risk national security to bail out its flagging economy, experts warn.
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Chancellor defends decision to travel to Beijing where she is seeking to revive relations that have been frozen since 2019
Rachel Reeves has said she will “take action” to meet her fiscal ... It follows Sir Keir Starmer’s own meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping at the G20 late last year as Labour has pursued a thaw in relations with China following the more frosty ...
Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she as trashed the economy’
Rachel Reeves, who is travelling with a delegation of British business leaders, will meet top Chinese finance and economic officials including Vice Premier He Lifeng
British finance minister Rachel Reeves, facing criticism for travelling to China during financial market turmoil at home, said on Saturday she will act to ensure the government's fiscal rules are met.