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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, proposed in his speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet to treat China with ‘robust pragmatism’. The Chinese ambassador to Britain was summoned to the Foreign Office following the arrest and beating of a BBC journalist, Ed Lawrence, in Shanghai. Net migration reached 504,000 in the year to June – the highest recorded, the Office for National Statistics estimated. A man was arrested in Gloucestershire over the deaths of at least 27 people who drowned in the Channel in a dinghy last year. Migrants with symptoms of diphtheria would be put into isolation, ministers said, as more than 50 cases were detected. The Online Safety Bill retained a clause obliging the removal of ‘legal, but harmful’ material, if only for those under 18; some feared it could bring in censorship. The former prime ministers Boris Johnson and Liz Truss supported an amendment to the Levelling Up Bill to allow construction of onshore wind farms.
Jaguar Land Rover reduced output in Solihull and Halewood until the spring, because of a shortage in supplies of computer chips.
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