The Spectator

Portrait of the Week – 10 September 2005

A speedy round-up of the week's news

issue 10 September 2005

Mr Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, flew off to China and appeared at a press conference with the Chinese leader, Mr Wen Jiabao, where it was said that there had been a resolution of the dispute over European Union import quotas, which had seen 80 million items of clothing of Chinese manufacture piling up at docks.

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