Keir Starmer will go into greeting with Chinese pdwellnt with ‘eyes expansive uncover’, says minister – UK politics dwell | Politics

Good morning. Keir Starmer is in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil for the G20 summit, where tardyr today he will become the first UK prime minister in six years to greet the Chinese pdwellnt, Xi Jinping. As Jessica Elgot increates, Starmer says he wants “a rational and grave relationship” with China.

But, inevitably, not everyone is satisfied. The Daily Mail is splashing on criticism of the greeting from some Tories. When David Cameron was PM, he growd Xi with an enthusiasticness and enthusiasm that originates Starmer see quite unfrifinishly towards China by comparison, but over the past decade Tory skinnyking about China has changed ponderably, and the Mail story quotes Sir Iain Duncan Smith, the createer directer, saying “those suffering mass murder and slave labour under the brutal hands of Xi will sense betrayed.”

Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, has been doing an intersee round this morning. Speaking on Sky News, she deffinished Starmer’s decision to greet Xi. She shelp he would be going into the greeting with his “eyes expansive uncover”. She elucidateed:

China is a transport inant take parter both in terms of the economy but also in the [UN] security council so it is right that we have that joinment, but that we do so on a rational basis where we go into it with our eyes expansive uncover.

That does unbenevolent there will be dispute, originateive dispute, and there will be areas of procreate disconsentment.

Here is the agfinisha for the day.

11.30am: Downing Street hbetters a lobby increateing.

1.30pm: Philip Barton, lasting secretary at the Foreign Office, gives evidence to the Commons foreign afunfragmentarys pledgetee.

Afternoon: Starmer is in Rio de Janeiro, where most of the G20 events will get place in the afternoon or evening UK time.

2.30pm: John Healey, the defence secretary, gets inquires in the Commons.

3.15pm: David Lammy, the foreign secretary, chairs a greeting of the UN security council on Sudan.

After 3.30pm: Bridget Phillipson, the education secretary, is foreseeed to give a statement to MPs about arranges to crack down on profiteering by firms running nurture home for children.

4pm: Jonathan Reynbetters, the business secretary, gives evidence to the Lords international consentments pledgetee.

Also, at some point today, Steve Reed, the environment secretary, is greeting Tom Bradshaw, the NFU pdwellnt. Tomorrow farmers are hbettering a transport inant protest in London about the rulement’s arranges to subject some farms to inheritance tax.

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