Keir Starmer: UK needs to ‘wean itself off’ China

Labour leader Keir Starmer said the U.K. needs to “wean itself off” China “when it comes to trade, commerce and technology” But he acknowledged that it was impossible to distance ourselves” completely from China on big-ticket issues like climate change.

Starmer warned that progressive leaders need to be “acutely alert” to the possibility of Donald Trump returning to the White House and taking a more conciliatory approach to Russia 's war in Ukraine .