Un testimone chiave nel caso di spionaggio cinese ha rimosso il “nemico” dalle prove sotto i conservatori

> In a letter to MPs, external, deputy national security adviser Matthew Collins said the word “enemy” was included in the draft witness statement written when the Conservatives were in power.
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> But he said he told police investigating the case he could not call China an “enemy” as this did not reflect government policy”.
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> Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been accused by the Conservatives of allowing the case to collapse earlier this year by not describing China as a threat to national security.

I feel like we’re seeing the side effects of the Conservatives having lost so much “expertise” or at least “institutional knowledge” over the last few years.

They’ve been pushing this story for a while, trying to turn it into a political scandal. Yet it seems at no point did they stop to check it wasn’t actually all their fault. It was Conservative who set up the China group, it was Conservatives who hired the spy, it was Conservatives who gave him the information, and now it turns out it was the Conservative Government who knew the case was going to collapse all the way back in 2023 – even before charges were brought.

The Conservatives should have known this, and if they had any sense, and weren’t far too reliant on a friendly press covering for them at any opportunity, wouldn’t have set up such a bad own goal.

Although somehow I imagine this won’t get much traction – Conservative supporters won’t care, Reform supporters will say it proves all the politicians are the same (while conveniently ignoring how many Tories are now working for Reform).

> Responding to the new evidence, Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch argued “the point is that the alleged spies were charged under a Conservative government” and they were “let off under a Labour government”.

The same as going “LA LA LA NOT LISTENING”