The Guardian view on the China spy trial: an opportunity for Labour to prove it understands the threat from Beijing | Editorial

No single word describes the challenge that China poses for UK foreign policy. There is threat and opportunity; a requirement to engage and an imperative to be guarded. The Communist party in Beijing represses dissent and pursues its interests overseas with coercive nationalist determination. It is not a regime with which Britain can build a…

Read More

The aide, the associate, the ‘Chinese agent’ – and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trial | UK news

Shortly before 10am on Monday, the Conservative MP Alicia Kearns received an unwelcome phone call. “I don’t know how to tell you this,” said the specialist police officer on the line. Ten minutes later the Old Bailey heard what Kearns now knew. A long-awaited trial of two men – a former parliamentary aide to Kearns,…

Read More