Security issues over plans for a Chinese embassy near London’s financial centres will be “taken care of assiduously”, a minister said after the White House warned Downing Street against allowing the project to go ahead.

Technology Secretary Peter Kyle said the UK would offer a “fulsome response” to any concerns raised by allies amid suggestions that US opposition could undermine transatlantic trade negotiations.

Mr Kyle sought to reassure the public that the Government deals with similar “infrastructure issues” relating to embassies “all the time”.

“These issues will be taken care of assiduously in the planning process,” he told Sky News’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips programme.

He added: “These are the issues that we talk about as two countries all the time… we’re in th

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