British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to approve plans for a controversial new Chinese “super embassy” in the heart of London ahead of a proposed visit to Beijing in the new year, a UK media report claimed on Friday.
According to ‘The Times’, both the Home Office and Foreign Office are unlikely to raise any formal objections to the plan if appropriate “mitigations” are put in place to protect national security after the UK's domestic and foreign security services – MI5 and MI6 – gave their nod to the proposals.
The newspaper referenced a government source at Whitehall to say that the mega embassy’s approval was now seen as a “formality” and expected by December 10.
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