Keir Starmer used his speech at the annual Lady Mayor’s Banquet to double down on pushing for closer ties with China. Fresh off MI5’s alert that Beijing is targeting MPs, and with the PM only a week from rubber-stamping the mega-embassy…
Starmer said:
“For years the narrative ran that China was the coming power. Well now it has arrived. And the UK needs a China policy that recognises this reality. But instead, for years we have blown hot and cold… The scale of the opportunity in China is immense.”
Starmer added that although China poses “national security threats”, he rejected the “binary choice” between the golden age and the ice age, arguing that failing to engage with the world’s second-largest economy would be “a dereliction of duty”. He managed to mention China 16 times in his speech – while Ukraine, Europe and Russia each got just two mentions…
Yesterday Guido revealed that National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell met China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi during a secret visit to Beijing on Friday. And Starmer still plans to travel to China next month. The Golden Keir-A remains rolls on…
