China cannot count on a policy reset if U.K. PM Sunak loses

Labour Party leaders appear to converge with Conservatives on policy toward Beijing

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Then-U.K. Foreign Secretary James Cleverly, left, with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi in Beijing in August: Policy toward China has been neither coherent nor consistent of late. (Pool via Reuters) 

Connor Horsfall is a London-based senior consultant at Shearwater Global, a public policy consultancy.

The U.K.'s relationship with China has deteriorated substantially since David Cameron, then prime minister, shared pints of beer with Xi Jinping in his local pub in Buckinghamshire in 2015.

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