Labour was last night accused of trying to gag the Deputy Speaker for urging Rachel Reeves to speak up for a democracy campaigner jailed in Hong Kong. The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Tory MP Nusrat Ghani was privately rebuked for joining a cross-party ...

More than 150,000 Hong Kongers have come to the UK since 2020 after China launched a crackdown under its national security law

Rachel Reeves is expected to raise support for Russia’s war in Ukraine and issues of human rights in Hong Kong during her trip to China.

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

Rachel Reeves, the UK Chancellor, embarks on a significant trade mission to China, aiming to bolster economic ties and explore investment opportunities. Her visit comes at a time when the UK economy faces challenges,

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.

Exclusive: Former cabinet minister Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the chancellor’s trip to Beijing was a desperate move ‘because she has trashed the economy’

RACHEL Reeves has vowed to “make the UK better off” on her visit to China amid fury over a major debt crisis and a plummeting economy at home. The under-siege Chancellor met Chinese

This month Chancellor Rachel Reeves, struggling to spark growth in Britain’s economy, will fly to China to plead for a few crumbs from Xi’s table. She talks of being a “hard-headed economic realist” in her mission to boost trade with Beijing and will be joined by Andrew Bailey, the Bank of England boss, to underline its importance.

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.

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

Downing Street left door open to an emergency Budget in the spring following the rising cost of government borrowing