Phony friends AS he cosied up to China at the G20, was Keir Starmer aware that Beijing was doing exactly the same with its REAL friends from the Kremlin? “A strong UK-China relationship is important for both our countries,” declared our PM . . .
quite the reversal given his total condemnation of the Chinese from the comfort of opposition. And how wide-eyed it sounds, with them also glad-handing Putin’s odious lackey Sergei Lavrov. “We are at an unprecedented stage in the development of our strategic relations of a comprehensive partnership,” said Lavrov — a statement far more significant to Beijing than whether Labour lets them build a new London embassy.
How impotent too the PM’s protests to President Xi over Hong Kong look with 47 democracy campaigners jailed there within hours. Our Government sees Chinese money as crucial for growth. READ MORE FROM THE SUN SAYS But there is a naivety to befriending a genocidal regime which simultaneously has Putin’s back against our own allies, Ukraine .
It won’t have been lost on Xi either. Stop digging THE Government cannot beat the farmers. It should rethink.
Its justification for this ruinous inheritance tax change, that it would help fund the NHS , is ludicrous. Most read in The Sun The health service would burn through even the most wildly optimistic estimate of its proceeds, £520million, in just one day. Environment Secretary Steve Reed is left pretending this betrayal of farmers was made inevitable by the Torie.