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Starmer pledges ‘serious plan’ for government

Throughout the 89-minute speech at the Labour Party conference, Sir Keir Starmer was heckled repeatedly by angry Labour activists waving red cards and interrupting speech, reports Asian Lite Newsdesk

Leader of the Labour Party Sir Keir Starmer on Wednesday said his party will never again go into an election without a “serious plan for government.”

In a first speech addressing full Labour conference since becoming party leader 17 months ago, Sir Keir said the country faced a “big moment” that “demands leadership” – and as prime minister he would provide it, according to a BBC report.

Sir Keir set out new policies on mental health, education and housing, but it was also a highly personal speech about his own background and values.

In an 89-minute speech, the Labour leader got a standing ovation, but was heckled by some left-wingers.

Sir Keir told those barracking him in the Brighton Centre that he was about “changing lives” not “shouting slogans”, to cheers from other delegates.

With the party having lost four general elections in a row, the last one by the biggest margin since the 1930s, Sir Keir attempted to distance himself from the policies of ex-leader Jeremy Corbyn.

While he did not mention his more left-wing predecessor by name, he said: “We will never under my leadership go into an election with a manifesto that is not a serious plan for government.”

“It will not take another election defeat for the Labour party to become an alternative government in which you can trust. That’s why it has been so important to get our own house in order this week and we have done that,” he said.

After a week dominated by rows with the left, Sir Keir urged activists to come together to beat the Conservatives, at a time when energy bills are rising, petrol supplies are running short and the economy is recovering from the pandemic.

He said it will be Labour’s national mission over the next decade, “to fit out every home that needs it, to make sure it is warm, well-insulated and costs less to heat and we will create thousands of jobs in the process.”

“I can also pledge that we will also introduce a Clean Air Act and everything we do in government will have to meet a “net zero” test to ensure that the prosperity we enjoy does not come at the cost of the climate,” he said.

Sir Keir described his parents as “the two rocks of my life”, saying his father, a toolmaker, had given him a “deep respect for the dignity of work”, the BBC reported.

He contrasted his life with that of Prime Minister Boris Johnson, whom he described as a “trickster”, a “trivial man” and a “showman with nothing left to show.”

“It’s easy to comfort yourself that your opponents are bad people. But I don’t think Boris Johnson is a bad man. I think he is a trivial man. I think he’s a showman with nothing left to show. I think he’s a trickster who has performed his one trick,” he said.

Sir Keir slammed Johnson’s address to the United Nations last week on “clearing up the mess.”

He said: “Let me quote what the Prime Minister said to the United Nations last week: “We believe that someone else will clear up the mess we make because that is what someone else has always done”.

He told Johnson to “either get a grip or get out of the way and let us clear up this mess.”

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Starmer vows to get Labour back in business

Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks after Chancellor Rishi Sunak's Budget speech. (UK Parliament_Jessica Taylor)

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will set out his principles and urge his party to show more discipline to beat the ruling Conservatives, reports Asian Lite Newsdesk

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer will promise to get Labour “back in business” when he delivers his first speech as leader to the party’s full conference, media reported.

Urging activists to unite to win the next election, he will launch an attack on Boris Johnson over his handling of the pandemic and the fuel crisis, the BBC reported.

Sir Keir will also pledge to train thousands of teachers and cut waiting times for mental health services.

Meanwhile, the issues between the leadership and left-wingers have overshadowed the conference. They have clashed over the nationalisation of energy industries, leadership election rules and the level of the minimum wage, it was reported.

The Labour leader is under pressure to unite his party and set out a vision that appeals to voters that have turned away from Labour, it was reported.

It will be the first time he has addressed a full conference since becoming leader last April, because last year’s event was held online due to Covid.

Motion against AUKUS

Labour Party has also passed an emergency motion that described the new security pact among the US, the UK and Australia, known as AUKUS, as a “dangerous move that will undermine world peace”.

During the party’s annual conference held on Monday, delegates passed the emergency motion by 70.35 per cent to 29.65 per cent.

“AUKUS is starting a new nuclear arms race and cold war. We must keep speaking out against it,” said former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Twitter on Monday.

The AUKUS pact, announced earlier this month, has triggered widespread concerns and criticism.

The three countries announced that the first initiative under AUKUS is to deliver a nuclear-powered submarine fleet to Australia.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a global nuclear watchdog, has voiced concern amid international worries about the proliferation of nuclear materials and technologies in response to the trilateral deal.

“The IAEA will engage with them (Australia, the US and Britain) on this matter in line with its statutory mandate, and in accordance with their respective safeguards agreements with the Agency,” it said in a recent statement.

Minimum wage row

Sir Keir Starmer faced a further row with party’s left wing after the party conference voted on proposals to raise the minimum wage to £15 an hour.

The Labour leadership had earlier said it will not encourage party members to back or reject the motion.

But, shadow cabinet member Andy McDonald on Monday quit Labour’s front bench with a massive attack against Sir Keir Starmer. McDonald said Sir Keir had ordered him to oppose the rise and calling his position “untenable”.

Meanwhile, leading left-wingers have accused Sir Keir of abandoning party principles. However, the Labour leader has said his focus was on winning the next general election.

Arguments between the left, including supporters of former leader Jeremy Corbyn, and Labour members loyal to the present leader have dominated the conference in Brighton.

Now, the Unite union is putting the motion calling for the minimum wage to increase to £15 to a vote on Tuesday. The package of measures also include demands for an end to zero-hour contracts and calls for a “better work-life balance”.

Labour’s existing policy is that the minimum wage should be “at least” £10 per hour.

According to BBC, raising the minimum wage was not one of the 10 pledges Sir Keir made when running for the Labour leadership last year, but he supported a campaign in 2019 – before he was leader – for McDonald’s to improve their workers’ pay and conditions.

But, in a scathing resignation letter, Mr McDonald claimed the leader’s office had instructed him go to a meeting at the party conference and “argue against a national minimum wage of £15 an hour and against statutory sick pay at the living wage”, the BBC reported.

In his resignation letter – published in the middle of Labour’s party conference in Brighton – the MP said his party leader had made Labour “more divided than ever”.

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Miliband says Boris is miles off UN climate success

His advice for Johnson, based on his experience in Copenhagen when the summit was “essentially collapsing”, was to “get across the detail, do the hard yards of diplomacy”…reports Asian Lite News.

Prime Minister Boris Johnson must do the “hard yards of diplomacy” if he wants any kind of success at the COP26 climate change conference in November, Ed Miliband, opposition Labour’s climate policy chief, said on Sunday.

With just over a month until the world’s leaders meet in Glasgow for COP26, some politicians and campaigners fear the United Nation’s summit is about to throw away what is seen as a last chance to tackle the climate crisis before it is too late.

Those fears were heightened by a UN analysis of country pledges earlier this month that showed global emissions would be 16% higher in 2030 than in 2010 – far off the 45% reduction by 2030 that scientists say is needed.

Miliband, an ex-Labour leader who led Britain’s delegation to the 2009 U.N. summit in Copenhagen, said Johnson should step in to support COP26 President Alok Sharma in persuading the big emitting nations to go further and to win over developing nations by delivering on a pledge to vaccinate the world against COVID-19.

“It’s not just a photo op when he gets to speak Latin and gets to resurrect a classical myth and tousle his hair, it’s a bit harder than that,” he told Reuters in an interview at the Labour Party’s conference in Brighton, southern England.

His advice for Johnson, based on his experience in Copenhagen when the summit was “essentially collapsing”, was to “get across the detail, do the hard yards of diplomacy”.

Johnson’s government has hailed U.S. President Joe Biden’s promise to double financial aid to developing nations vulnerable to the worsening climate crisis and China’s announcement it would not build new coal-fired power projects abroad.

But the COP26 team in London has yet to get major polluters, such as China and Russia, to submit new national emissions pledges, seen as crucial to limiting the global average temperature rise to well below 2 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit).

Drawing on his experience in Copenhagen, Miliband said it took Gordon Brown, then British prime minister, getting “his hands dirty” by stepping up the pressure on other leaders “to rescue (something) from the wreckage”.

Britain’s case to persuade others was not helped, he said, by Johnson’s missteps, including cutting overseas aid and not yet fully honouring a pledge to vaccinate precisely those nations where he needs to foster trust, as well as “flirting” with a new coal project.

“I am afraid there is a sort of inconvenient truth … that we are miles away from where we need to be for Glasgow, miles away,” he said.

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Johnson wants lifting of ban on families’ travel for Ashes

Johnson raised this issue with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during their meeting in Washington DC where they are on a diplomatic visit…reports Asian Lite News.

With England set to tour Australia for the traditional Ashes series in December there are concerns in England over the impact of the lengthy bio-bubble on the health of the players as the team will be going Down Under soon after the T20 World Cup. To lessen the mental stress, England players have sought to travel with their families for the Ashes, a move opposed by the Australian government which has imposed strict travel restrictions on visitors due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

United Kingdom Prime Minister Boris Johnson has stepped in on behalf of his country’s cricketers and has pleaded for the families to be allowed to travel to Australia with the players to lessen the stress caused by staying away from the family during Chrismas. 1

Johnson raised this issue with Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison during their meeting in Washington DC where they are on a diplomatic visit. Johnson later said that Morrison has promised to come back with a solution soon, as reported by the media in the two countries.

“I raised it [with Morrison] and he said he was going to do his best for the families,” Johnson told reporters in Washington. “He totally got the point that for cricketers it is very tough to ask people to be away from their families over Christmas. He merely undertook to come back and see if he could find a solution.”

In response, Morrison said: “I would love to see the Ashes go ahead, as I shared with Boris last night. But there’s no special deals there. I don’t see a great deal of difference in skilled workers or students, who will be able to come to Australia when you reach the vaccination rates.”

The first Test is set to start at Brisbane on December 8, but the tour remains in doubt after a number of England players expressed reservations about the 14-day strict quarantine they will have to undergo on reaching Australia for the tour and the measures that will be in force for the duration of the tour.

The Australian government has been very strict on quarantine measures and even its Olympic and Paralympic contingents returning from Tokyo were made to undergo quarantine considering the Covid-19 status in some of its states.

Australia plans to ease travel restrictions only after 80 percent of double vaccination for over 16s is completed, and according to reports that may not happen before the start of the Ashes.

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‘Time For Humanity To Grow Up On Climate Change’

Prime Minister Johnson appealed to the world leaders to limit the rise in temperatures – whose appalling effects were visible even this summer – to 1.5 degrees, reports Asian Lite Newsdesk

It is time for humanity to grow up on climate change, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

He argued that humanity is at a turning point, “where we can no longer take the health of the planet for granted but instead need to take urgent action to halt climate change.”

The prime minister’s speech comes ahead of the UK-hosted COP26 climate summit in Glasgow in November.

The PM has used his US visit to push leaders for action on climate change, the BBC reported.

Johnson attempted to strike a humorous note in his speech, saying Kermit the Frog had been wrong when he sang It’s Not Easy Bein’ Green, it was reported.

“An inspection of the fossil record over the last 178 million years – since mammals first appeared – reveals that the average mammalian species exists for about a million years before it evolves into something else or vanishes into extinction,” he said.

He said: “If you imagine that million years as the lifespan of an individual human being – about 80 years – then we are now sweet 16.”

“We have come to that fateful age when we know roughly how to drive and we know how to unlock the drinks cabinet and to engage in all sorts of activity that is not only potentially embarrassing but also terminal.”

“In the words of the Oxford philosopher Toby Ord “we are just old enough to get ourselves into serious trouble.”

Referring to the COP26 summit, he said, “We are approaching that critical turning point – in less than two months – when we must show that we are capable of learning, and maturing, and finally taking responsibility for the destruction we are doing – not just to our planet but to ourselves.”

“It is time for humanity to grow up. It is time for us to listen to the warnings of the scientists – and look at covid, if you want an example of gloomy scientists being proved right – and to understand who we are and what we are doing.”

“The world – this precious blue sphere with its eggshell crust and wisp of an atmosphere – is not some indestructible toy, some bouncy plastic romper room against which we can hurl ourselves to our heart’s content.”

“Daily, weekly, we are doing such irreversible damage that long before a million years are up will have made this beautiful planet effectively uninhabitable – not just for us but for many other species.”

Concluding the speech, Johnson appealed to the world leaders to “limit the rise in temperatures – whose appalling effects were visible even this summer – to 1.5 degrees.”

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Climate change focus for PM at UNGA

The visit is seen as an important precursor to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties UN climate summit, to be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November, reports Asian Lite News

Prime Minister Boris Johnson will call upon world leaders to take a “concrete action” on climate change during his meetings at the high-level United Nations General Assembly in New York this week, according to Downing Street on Sunday.

More than 100 Heads of State and Government as well as Foreign Ministers and diplomats will participate in-person in the annual General Debate, beginning September 21 through September 27.

Prime Minister Johnson, who will also visit the White House for the first time since Joe Biden became the US President, will be joining Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the UNGA meeting among the world leaders scheduled to attend the meeting in person.

The visit is seen as an important precursor to the 26th session of the Conference of the Parties (COP 26) UN climate summit, to be hosted by the UK in Glasgow in November.

“World leaders have a small window of time left to deliver on their climate commitments ahead of COP26,’ Johnson said ahead of the UNGA.

“My message to those I meet this week will be clear: future generations will judge us based on what we achieve in the coming months. We need to continue to make a case for a sustainable recovery from coronavirus rooted in green growth. And we have a responsibility to ensure the benefits of that growth extend to all, no matter where they are born,” he said.

According to media reports, Johnson intends to push for an action on coal, climate, cars and trees in particular.

Downing Street said he would focus on supporting developing nations to mitigate the impact of the climate crisis, as well as on adapting to its consequences.

Johnson will reportedly attempt to persuade China to quicken its timetable for reducing emissions.

UK’s COP26 president-designate Alok Sharma revealed to ‘Sky News’ on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping is yet to confirm attendance at the crucial Scotland summit and said details on the country’s emission cuts are awaited.

“There is no doubt that China is going to be part of the key to all of this,” said Sharma.

“They are the biggest emitter in the world. What President Xi Jinping has said is that they are going to strictly restrict the use of coal in this next five-year period, from 2026 they are going to phase down. But we want to see the detail of that. That is what we are pressing them. They have said to me they want the COP26 to be a success. The ball is in their court. We want them to come forward and make it a success together with the rest of the world,” Sharma said.

Experts said that to avoid the worst climate impacts, carbon emissions must be cut by 45 per cent by 2030. However, on current policies, emissions could rise by 16 per cent in this period.

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Prime Minister Johnson is also set to travel to Washington, where he is expected to hold talks with US President Biden on the future of Afghanistan and further efforts to stem a humanitarian crisis in the region.

According to reports, an easing up of UK-US travel is also likely to be taken up, with the US administration having imposed a ban due to soaring rates of the Delta variant of coronavirus earlier this year.

The fallout from the new AUKUS military pact between the UK, the US and Australia is also expected to be under discussion. Under the agreement, Australia is being given the technology to build nuclear-powered submarines. It had triggered a diplomatic row with France, which feels betrayed over its own submarine deal with Australia.

The newly-promoted UK Foreign Secretary, Liz Truss, used a column in The Sunday Telegraph to defend AUKUS.

“Freedoms need to be defended, so we are also building strong security ties around the world. This is about more than foreign policy in the abstract, but delivering for people across the UK and beyond by partnering with like-minded countries to build coalitions based on shared values and shared interests,” she said.

The alliance ‘ widely seen as an effort to counter China’s influence in the contested South China Sea ‘ was announced by US President Biden, Johnson and his Australian counterpart Scott Morrison earlier this week.

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Johnson Reshuffles His Top Team

With a major cabinet reshuffle, which saw ruthless demotions and unexpected promotions to few ministers, Prime Minister Boris Johnson is laying groundworks for the next general election, reports Asian Lite Newsdesk

In a major reshuffle, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has appointed his party’s first female foreign secretary and replaced and promoted few other ministers with an aim to secure a second term in power.

Elizabeth Truss has been appointed as the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary as Prime Minister Boris Johnson made a cabinet reshuffle on Wednesday, Downing Street said.

“The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP @trussliz has been appointed Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs @FCDOGovUK. She remains as Minister for Women and Equalities @GEOgovuk,” Downing Street tweeted.

Anne-Marie Trevelyan was promoted to replace Truss as international trade secretary in the reshuffle at the top of Johnson’s government.

Meanwhile, foreign secretary Dominic Raab has been appointed as Deputy Prime Minister, Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice.

Johnson, who is promising to “build back better” from the pandemic, fired Gavin Williamson as education secretary and Robert Buckland as justice secretary. Meanwhile, vaccines minister Nadhim Zahawi was promoted to education secretary.

Nadhim Zahawi, MP for Stratford-on-Avon.

Junior Health minister Nadine Dorries, a best-selling novelist who has never sat at the cabinet table before, has replaced Oliver Dowden as culture secretary. Dowden was given the role of minister without portfolio at the Cabinet Office, and Conservative Party co-chair.

Meanwhile, the new Housing, Communities and Local Government Secretary Michael Gove, who replaced Robert Jenrick, will get the added responsibility of the government’s “levelling up” agenda – spreading wealth and opportunity around the country – while continuing to handle demands for another Scottish independence referendum, the BBC reported.

The prime minister is now expected to rejig his junior and middle-ranking ministers in a process which could take days, it was reported.

Following the reshuffle, the prime minister tweeted that his new cabinet would “work tirelessly to unite and level up the whole country”. “We will build back better from the pandemic and deliver on your priorities,” he said. “Now let’s get on with the job.”

Truss, who is the Tory party’s first female foreign secretary, and only the second woman to hold the role, following Labour’s Margaret Becket, said she was delighted by the appointment and would use the role to “promote a positive, outward vision of global Britain”, the BBC reported.

Dominic Raab was widely criticised for his handling of the UK withdrawal from Afghanistan, CNN reported.

It further reported that the former foreign secretary was on holiday in Greece as the Taliban took control of Afghanistan. He faced demands for his resignation after it emerged that not long before the fall of Kabul, he asked a deputy to handle an urgent call with the Afghan foreign minister regarding the evacuation of interpreters who had worked with British armed forces. The call never happened.

Raab said he was not considering his position, but he did admit that “with the benefit of hindsight” he would not have gone on holiday as the Taliban advanced on Kabul, CNN reported.

Afghanistan plunged into crisis last month after Kabul fell to the Taliban and the democratically elected government of former president Ashraf Ghani collapsed. The seizure of power has forced thousands of Afghans to flee for fear of reprisals from the outfit.

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PM Johnson’s mother, Charlotte Johnson Wahl, dies

Senior figures from across the political spectrum, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, have sent their condolences to Johnson…reports Asian Lite News.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s mother has passed away at the age of 79.

Charlotte Johnson Wahl, a professional painter, passed away “suddenly and peacefully” at a London hospital on Monday, according to The Daily Telegraph.

According to the newspaper, Johnson Wahl was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at the age of 40.

Senior figures from across the political spectrum, including Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer, have sent their condolences to Johnson.

Reacting to the death, Sir Keir said: “I’m very sorry to learn of the prime minister’s loss. My condolences to him and his family.”

Johnson once described his mother as the “supreme authority” in the family and credited her with instilling in him the equal value of every human life, Sky News reported.

Conservative party chairwoman, Amanda Milling, said she was “thinking of Boris Johnson and his family this evening”, adding, “Our thoughts and prayers are with you.”

Tory MP, Conor Burns, who is a friend of the prime minister, tweeted: “So sad to hear of the death of Boris Johnson’s mum. Thoughts and prayers are with him and the whole of the Johnson clan.”

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Mrs Johnson Wahl, whose father was president of the European Commission for Human Rights in the 1970s, married Stanley Johnson in 1963 before completing her degree at Oxford University as the first married female undergraduate at her college, the BBC reported.

The couple had four children – Boris, journalist Rachel, former minister Jo and environmentalist Leo. They divorced in 1979, it was reported.

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Johnson urged to reassess Cambo oilfield

UK wants to take a lead in efforts to cut emissions more quickly before the United Nations’ Climate Change conference, or COP26, in Scotland in November…reports Asian Lite News.

Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon on Sunday urged UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson not to “simply go ahead and grant the permission” for the Cambo oilfield to start production, media reported,.

She added that the licensing approval given to the oilfield must be reassessed against the background of more ambitious climate change targets, according to a Reuters report.

The oilfield, in the North Sea off the Scottish island of Shetland, was handed licensing approval in 2001.

UK wants to take a lead in efforts to cut emissions more quickly before the United Nations’ Climate Change conference, or COP26, in Scotland in November, but environmental groups have accused ministers of hypocrisy in even considering giving Cambo the green light.

“I’ve asked the prime minister not to simply go ahead and grant the permission to go ahead with production as a matter of course, that the licence should be reassessed against the same kind of climate requirements as new licences are going to be assessed,” Sturgeon told Sky News.

“I wouldn’t give the go ahead without a fundamental reassessment of the licence.”

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Queen leads congratulations for Raducanu’s stunning Slam win

Raducanu’s win even managed to knock football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s two goals on his return to Manchester United off Sunday morning’s British newspaper front pages, reports Asian Lite News

Emma Raducanu’s extraordinary US Open triumph led to an explosion of joy in Britain, with Queen Elizabeth II leading the celebrations as the 18-year-old qualifier made tennis history in New York.

Raducanu beat 19-year-old Canadian Leylah Fernandez 6-4 6-3 to become Britain’s first women’s Grand Slam singles champion since Virginia Wade at Wimbledon in 1977, and the first player to win a major after coming through a qualifying tournament.

“I send my congratulations to you on your success,” the Queen said. “It is a remarkable achievement at such a young age, and is testament to your hard work and dedication.”

Raducanu’s win even managed to knock football superstar Cristiano Ronaldo’s two goals on his return to Manchester United off Sunday morning’s British newspaper front pages.

The Express called it “Absolutely Emm-ense!” while the Telegraph proclaimed: “She did it!”

Social media caught fire after Raducanu sealed the win with an ace.

Former England footballer Gary Lineker broke off from presenting the Premier League highlights programme “Match of the Day” on BBC TV to post: “First time in my life I’ve ever tweeted whilst on air but my goodness what a performance, what a triumph, what an amazing young woman.”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson tweeted: “What a sensational match! Huge congratulations to Emma Raducanu. You showed extraordinary skill, poise and guts and we are all hugely proud of you.”

Raducanu’s only previous Slam appearance, at Wimbledon in July, ended when she pulled out of her fourth-round match after an anxiety attack.

“Look at that bounce back @EmmaRaducanu US Open champion, amazing. Congratulations,” tweeted England and Manchester United footballer Marcus Rashford, who had offered support to Raducanu after her Wimbledon exit.

Formula One world champion Lewis Hamilton said: “It has been incredible to see her rise, the focus she has and the sheer determination.

“She is a sweet person, too, so the UK can be proud of her and I am super-proud of her and I can’t wait to see what she does next. She is an inspiring figure.”

Raducanu was born in Canada to a Chinese mother and Romanian father, but grew up in Bromley in suburban south London after moving to England at the age of two.

Former British number one Tim Henman, who was courtside in New York, said: “She will win more of these, she is that good. This is not some flash in the pan or fairytale. She is playing top-five tennis.”

Australian Grand Slam winner Pat Cash told BBC radio that a qualifier winning a major is “something I never could have believed would happen. It’s mind boggling.”

And tennis great Martina Navratilova tweeted: “A star is born – Emma Raducanu makes history… and she is just getting started. And will never have to qualify again:)”

In China, where the match took place in the early hours of Sunday, Tencent published an article with pictures of Raducanu visiting China as a child.

“An ethnic Chinese won the US Open” it trumpeted. “She claimed that her motivation (or power) comes from her Chinese mother!”

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