Red ties What Barry Gardiner said about China

Britain can learn from the Chinese. We must have their level of aspiration here in the UK’

September 2006

‘Sun Zhen, deputy director general at climate change department in Beijing, was a very positive influence at the Globe World Summit of Legislators’

June 2012

‘China’s investment in clean energy in 2012 was $67.7billion, the highest in the world. UK plans are £7.6billion by 2020. Who’s the leader, I wonder?’

April 2013

‘China’s president says, in call with presidentelect Macron, China will defend Paris climate agreement. That’s real leadership May 2017

Christine Ching Kui Lee with Barry Gardiner, the Labour Party MP, who said she would ask him things like who was up and who was down in politics

The Chinese spy meeting Xi Jinping, the country’s leader, right and with Ken Livingstone, the former Labour MP and London mayor, left