A hearing to decide whether Britain’s youngest knife murderers should have their sentences increased for the killing of Shawn Seesahai will be held on Thursday at the Court of Appeal.

Deputy Prime Minister Ms Rayner said the Government was ‘taking a step towards relighting the fire in our great regions’.

Alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo, who forged links with the Duke of York and mixed with other British establishment figures, insisted he has “done nothing wrong or unlawful”.