Britain needs to be better at talking itself up, Sir Keir Starmer said as he returned from leading a trade delegation to China.This is the first visit by a British prime minister since 2018 as Labour attempts to "reset" relations with Beijing.Asked what he could do to project that sense of optimism at home, he said: "I think we've all got a responsibility to inject that optimism and make sure that we talk up what we're good at as a country, and we're not always as good at that as we should be."

Britain needs to be better at talking itself up, Sir Keir Starmer said as he returned from leading a trade delegation to China.This is the first visit by a British prime minister since 2018 as Labour attempts to "reset" relations with Beijing.Asked what he could do to project that sense of optimism at home, he said: "I think we've all got a responsibility to inject that optimism and make sure that we talk up what we're good at as a country, and we're not always as good at that as we should be."