Party chairman Kevin Hollinrake has written to standards adviser Sir Laurie Magnus to express concerns that ministers, including Sir Keir, could have broken the ministerial code.

Housing Secretary Steve Reed pushed back the deadline for making a decision on planning permission for the new Chinese embassy until December 10.

Beijing claimed the UK was failing to “honour its commitments” by delaying the decision, but Downing Street has rejected that it made any assurances over the embassy.

Plans for the embassy were rejected by Tower Hamlets Council in 2022, with the Chinese opting not to appeal. Please review your details and accept them to load the content

But Beijing resubmitted the application a fortnight after Labour’s election victory last year, and the plans were then called in so

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