Stable China-UK relations benefit both sides: China Daily editorial chinadaily.com.cn | Updated: 2026-07-21 20:33

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202607/21/WS6a5f6735a310986e2b46680e.html On Monday afternoon, Andy Burnham, the United Kingdom's seventh prime minister since 2016, stood outside No 10 Downing Street and said: "Let us make this the moment when Britain starts to believe again, the moment we bring back hope." It was a good line that millions of UK people will be looking to him to deliver on. But "hope", as every UK leader has learned to their cost, is a currency that devalues fast when the fiscal arithmetic refuses to cooperate.