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Members Only, Issue 1668
I’m in China.
Members Only, Issue 1668
I’m in China.
Angela Rayner
Did you take your knee-pads?
Did you take your knee-pads?
Jonathan Powell
No kowtowing has been going on.
No kowtowing has been going on.
Yvette Cooper
Certainly not from Xi.
Certainly not from Xi.
Jonathan Powell
Yvette, let me mandarinsplain. We are just recalibrating our position in the new world order in terms of diplomatic links with a major trading superpower.
Yvette, let me mandarinsplain. We are just recalibrating our position in the new world order in terms of diplomatic links with a major trading superpower.
Darren Jones
That is actually the dictionary definition of ‘kowtowing’.
That is actually the dictionary definition of ‘kowtowing’.
Yvette Cooper
Perhaps I could intervene here, as technically Foreign Secretary but currently sitting at home watching my husband on Happy Cornfl akes Britain with his glamorous TV wife Susanna Reid with her serious glasses.
Perhaps I could intervene here, as technically Foreign Secretary but currently sitting at home watching my husband on Happy Cornfl akes Britain with his glamorous TV wife Susanna Reid with her serious glasses.
Jonathan Powell
What’s your point, Yvette?
What’s your point, Yvette?
Yvette Cooper
My point is that we really shouldn’t trust a superpower with a despotic unpredictable leader, who’s threatening to invade another country at any moment.
My point is that we really shouldn’t trust a superpower with a despotic unpredictable leader, who’s threatening to invade another country at any moment.
That’s no way to talk about
my friend President Trump!
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