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The Guardian's deputy political editor Jessica Elgot believes it is unlikely that Rishi Sunak will label China a strategic threat", after increased pressure to do so by his backbench MPs.

Here is her take on the prime minister's options and what he is likely to say and do next on the issue.

As I cannot guarantee that, as was provisionally hoped to be the case, that the core participants will receive almost all the disclosure to which they are entitled by mid-March, I must invite you to consider putting back the provisional start date of May to early June.

In the general scheme of your inquiry, this is a fairly modest adjournment application.