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”.