In an exclusive interview with the Guardian, Foreign Secretary James Cleverly said Britain should not “pull the shutters down” on China. Mr Cleverly will set out the UK’s approach towards China next week, the paper reports, amid concerns from some Tory MPs over its threat to security.

In what the paper calls a “warning to Conservative hawks”, James Cleverly says Britain cannot simply treat Beijing as either a threat or an opportunity, but must take a more nuanced approach. “If we don’t engage, we lose influence”, he says.