Starmer in China to improve British economy, Harriet Harman says

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Sir Keir Starmer is visiting China to amended the UK's economy, Harriet Harman has said.

The erstwhile Labour furniture curate told Beth Rigby connected the Electoral Dysfunction podcast that the premier minister's travel to the world's second-largest system was intended to amended the fiscal concern of voters successful the UK.

However, she said the authorities would stay "clear-eyed" astir imaginable threats from Beijing.

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After gathering with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Sir Keir confirmed UK citizens would get 30-day visa-free introduction to China, and that whisky tariffs would beryllium halved.

Ms Harman said: "The overwhelming imperative for the authorities is to get maturation successful the UK system and for people's surviving standards to improve.

"And China being the second-largest system successful the satellite with expanding difficulties with the US.

"You know, it's just, arsenic helium said, it's the pragmatism, and erstwhile [Sir Keir] was speaking with the concern delegation connected camera, saying, actually, this is each astir radical backmost home.

"I deliberation that you tin see, and he's evidently radiating retired to the Chinese arsenic well, a precise wide absorption connected this.

"They're not going each astir the houses connected this. This is astir the economy."

Rigby pointed retired that the travel could perchance unfastened the doorway for the authorities to invitation Mr Xi to sojourn the UK, arsenic helium did successful 2015.

"[It] would beryllium a monolithic woody if the UK authorities is prepared to let Xi to visit, fixed that the Chinese authorities had sanctioned British parliamentarians from coming to China," Sky's governmental exertion said.

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Ms Harman said: "This is astir much trade, it's astir much investment.

"And evidently they're managing each the different things similar the banning of the MPs, similar the information issues, similar the espionage.

"So those each things person got to beryllium managed, and that's wherefore they say, we're going to beryllium clear-eyed astir this. So we are not forgetting astir those problems.

"But it's conscionable the system stupid, isn't it?"

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