The UK foreign secretary and home secretary have intervened on China’s planning application for an enormous new London embassy, signalling their support while outlining conditions for the proposed site.
In a joint letter to the Planning Inspectorate for England on Tuesday, David Lammy and Yvette Cooper stressed the “importance of countries having functioning diplomatic premises in each other’s capitals”.
The intervention came after Rachel Reeves visited Beijing and Shanghai last week to boost economic ties, the first such trip to the Chinese mainland by a British chancellor since 2017. Lammy visited China last year.
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