Ivanka Trump discussed expanding her family’s business in Russia and China with the former MI6 spy who later provided the FBI with explosive claims about her father, according to a source.

A report by the US Department of Justice’s inspector-general, published this week, revealed claims by Christopher Steele that he had been friends with a member of the Trump family. The British former intelligence officer was the author of the 2016 dossier on Donald Trump that included unsubstantiated allegations that Russia held sexually lurid information about him.

Earlier this year Mr Steele told the inspector-general’s review, which examined the FBI’s investigation into Mr Trump’s alleged links with Russia, that he had been “favourably disposed” towards the Trump family before he compiled the dossier. Critics