There’s a telling photograph of the chancellor which shows her sitting attentively, briefcase tucked on her chair, while the Chinese vice president holds forth in front of a classical landscape mural.

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

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.

The Chancellor was also criticised for her visit to China, with SNP MP Dave Doogan saying it was ‘beyond parody’.

MPs and peers pen letter to Rachel Reeves urging her to raise plight of detained political prisoners during China trip.

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 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 ...

Chancellor defends decision to travel to Beijing where she is seeking to revive relations that have been frozen since 2019

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' 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.