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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Britain and Japan will respond with ‘strength’ as instability ‘shakes the world’, Starmer says

Britain and Japan will respond with “strength and clarity” as “geopolitical, economic and technological shocks are literally shaking the world”, Sir Keir Starmer said on a visit to Tokyo.

The prime minister, who met his Japanese counterpart Sanae Takaichi on a flying visit to Japan at the end of a four-day trip to China, has invited her to Chequers, saying that the relationship between Britain and Japan is the “strongest now that it has been in decades”.

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