Communist China is a threat to our security. It shouldn’t be difficult to say that.
Let’s remind ourselves of the threat China poses.
Chris Philp, Shadow Home Secretary, is demanding Sir Keir Starmer and his government come clean about the collapse of the China spy ring trial[/caption]
It is an authoritarian state where free speech doesn’t exist. It is closely allied with Russia and North Korea and has been actively supporting both.
China’s communist dictator, Xi Jinping, views democracy as his enemy.
And according to MI5, China has been engaging in espionage against the UK on an “epic” scale – by trying to steal sensitive technology, among other things.
So how come two alleged Chinese spies were unable to be properly tried on the basis we couldn’t prove China is a threat?
In April 2024 the Crown Prosecution Service said it had the evidence it needed.
Yet last month, the CPS abandoned the case.
Yet our government appears to have deliberately collapsed a China spying trial as part of Keir Starmer’s great kow-tow to the Chinese dragon.
Labour first claimed that it had nothing at all to do with the government and they were surprised by the whole thing.
But in a shock move, the Director of Public Prosecutions, who runs the CPS, then spoke out.
He has made clear the case actually collapsed because Labour refused to provide the evidence needed – exploding their claims.
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has faced questions over what he knew about the evidence being passed to the CPS in the China spy ring case[/caption]
It was a bombshell intervention. It means Labour – not the CPS – sabotaged the trial.
Keir Starmer is now busy trying to dodge the blame, by first claiming the last government did not publicly say China was a threat.
That claim is also total rubbish and is anyway not the legal test.
In April 2024 then Security Minister Tom Tugendhat said China’s behaviour posed “a serious threat to the security and wellbeing of the British people.”
Government reviews also recognised China as “the biggest state-based threat to the UK’s economic security” and a danger to our people and our prosperity.
As a former Minister I know that the government also has reams of internal documents from the relevant period exposing the threat China posed.
Even classified information can be disclosed confidentially.
But Labour refused to provide that evidence to the CPS, causing the prosecution to collapse.
Worse, it seems they did it on purpose.
And why did they do that? So China didn’t get upset.
That’s right: our weak Prime Minister is so desperate not to offend Beijing that he’s let a trial collapse.
As his economic plans lie in ruins around him, he wants China to dig him out – and he thinks this is more important than national security.
Starmer is engaging in a great kow-tow in his desperation for Chinese trade and investment deals – even at the expense of security. It’s shameful.
This will have huge consequences. Chinese spies now know they can obtain state secrets and face no punishment.
And spies from other countries will look at this case and see how pathetic our government is. They will be emboldened, and will take advantage.
Of course, Labour is desperately trying to cover it all up.
But they are so incompetent that they can’t even get that right, and their story keeps changing.
At first, they insisted the CPS made the decision to drop the case entirely independently. When the CPS themselves exploded that, they then tried to blame the last government.
Now they claim current Ministers weren’t involved in the decision to withhold evidence. That shift matters, because it means top advisers are likely to have been involved.
Reports suggest that one of them was deeply involved – adviser and close friend to Keir Starmer, Jonathan Powell.
It is widely known that Powell has a long track record of seeking to toady up to China, along with his close pal the disgraced Lord Mandelson.
If Powell did authorise critical that evidence should be withheld – which seems very likely – he must be fired.
But this goes beyond him. It is inconceivable that Powell acted without Starmer’s knowledge.
That puts the spotlight on the man in Number Ten – he must now admit to what he knew and when.
Don’t forget his record.
This is the same man who tried to conceal the truth about Peter Mandelson and convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
The same man whose leadership campaign was funded by dodgy donations.
The same man who broke all his promises to voters within a year of getting into power.
We cannot trust anything he says.
He is cosying up to the brutal Chinese regime, going against the warnings of security experts.
Keir Starmer is putting the interests of a foreign adversary before our own national interest and then covering it up. We will not let him get away with it.
The Conservatives will use every tool at our disposal to expose the truth.
