British Prime Minister Keir Starmer has arrived in the Chinese financial center of Shanghai in his bid to boost business opportunities for U.K. firms in the world’s second-largest economy, just hours after President Donald Trump signaled a possible opposition to any deal between Beijing and London.

Sir Keir Starmer has criticised the "politics of poisonous division" of Reform UK, after the party’s candidate in an upcoming by-election received an endorsement from far-right activist Tommy Robinson. The Labour leader’s comments precede a crucial vote in Gorton and Denton, a Greater Manchester constituency that Labour hopes to hold.

The Government has already faced strong opposition over plans to repeal immunity provisions in Northern Ireland legacy legislation.

Keir Starmer highlighted Donald Trump's own planned visit to Beijing after the US President was invited by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the end of 2025

Sir Keir Starmer attended talks in Tokyo, saying the relationship between the countries was the "strongest" it has been "in decades".

China is set to ‌lift ​restrictions which it had ‌imposed on a group of British lawmakers, Prime Minister ​Keir Starmer said on Friday, meaning that they will now be free to ‍travel to China. Starmer made the ​announcement during his four-day visit to China,