Today, Paddy and Laura discuss Rachel Reeves’ trip to Beijing to meet with her Chinese counterpart. But some of the opposition are saying she shouldn’t have gone at a time when soaring government borrowing costs threaten to squeeze UK public finances.

Rachel Reeves' visit to Beijing is "perverse, wrong, misguided, and unhelpful" and shows the lengths to which this Government is willing to risk national security to bail out its flagging economy, experts warn.