A parliamentary researcher has just been arrested on suspicion of espionage. A man in his late twenties, with reported links to the security minister and the chair of the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, is accused of spying for China and may have had access to sensitive secret documents. A second suspect has been collared in Oxfordshire. It’s said to be the worst Westminster security breach in years: ‘We haven’t seen anything like this before.’
I’m sure you were as surprised as I was to find out that the Chinese are spying on us. Gobsmacked. Flabbergasted. Probably nearly as surprised as the Prime Minister. And to hear his spokesman tell it, Rishi Sunak wasn’t just surprised but jolly cross about it too.
So-called China hawks would like us to take a cooler approach, but Rishi has already ruled that out
So cross, in fact, that he tore up his plan for the G20, which had involved no meeting with the Chinese prime minister, to confront the fellow directly, mano a mano.
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