Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, was among thousands of people who demonstrated against the plans on Saturday. If approved, it will be 10 times bigger than the current Chinese embassy and ...

China bought the site for more than £255 million in 2018 but plans for the super-embassy were previously rejected by Tower Hamlets borough council in 2022. China chose not to appeal against the ...

Amherst-based Uniland confirmed Monday that it will turn 59 hotel rooms on the seventh and eighth floors of the 16-story ...

More than 1,000 people are planning to demonstrate against China’s proposed ‘super embassy’ near the Tower ... the final decision in October. The plans were also initially opposed by the ...

China's proposal to turn the former Royal Mint building into Europe's largest embassy was rejected by Tower Hamlets council before Secretary of State Angela Rayner called them in and announced she ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Contentious proposals for a new Chinese mega-embassy in central London have been the subject of ...

A furious row has erupted after two top cabinet ministers backed plans for a Chinese “super” Embassy in east London, despite espionage fears from British intelligence sources. Beijing’s ...

The government has been accused of bowing to foreign political pressure by calling in proposals to turn a former Royal Mint site near the Tower of London into a Chinese ‘super-embassy’.