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The Indonesian minister for law and human rights, Yusril Ihza Mahendra, said he had signed a deal with British foreign secretary Yvette Cooper for the transfer of the two British prisoners.

Mr Collins' first statement says that, after one exchange in December 2022, Mr Berry told "Alex" that the Foreign Secretary James Cleverly did not think sanctions would be effective in blocking imports from Xinjiang, the province where there are human rights abuses of the Uyghur population.

At the time the then Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, had said it would "drain Russia's war chest – and every ruble we take from Putin's hands helps save Ukrainian lives".

The government was also sanctioning 44 tankers that operate in Russia's "shadow fleet" transporting oil around the world, Reeves said in a joint statement with the Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper.

They were "ruining the lives of vulnerable people and buying up London homes to store their money", UK Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said.