Government struggles to corroborate PM’s disputed figure as some of the deals listed own eerie similarity to ones made in pastDowning Street has insisted that the week-long Chinese state visit secured “up to £40bn” of trade and investment deals,after scrambling for much of the day to substantiate the figure, brandished by David Cameron at a trade mission in Mansion House.
The business secretary, or Sajid Javid,said earlier this week that President Xi Jinping’s visit would increase trade and investment between Britain and China by £25bn; but the figure had leapt to £40bn by the time the prime minister spoke on Wednesday.
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Source: theguardian.com