45 h. ago Hoyle says he cannot bring private prosecution in China spy case

The Commons Speaker suggested he would ‘support’ others if they pursued private action.

Politics

3 d. ago UK's Starmer stands by his Treasury chief after house rental rule breach

U.K. Treasury chief Rachel Reeves has apologized for renting out her London house without a license

Society

1 week ago ‘Significant exposure’: Amazon Web Services outage exposed UK state’s £1.7bn reliance on tech giant

Cloud computing disruption highlights risk of deepening ties despite warnings from UK’s own regulators, including the TreasuryAmazon chief executive Andy Jassy beamed as he met Keir Starmer in Downing Street’s garden to announce £40bn of UK investments in June. Starmer was equally effusive, gushing: “This deal shows that our plan for change is working –bringing in investment, driving growth, and putting more money in people’s pockets.”Four months later, and the tech company was left scrambling to fix a devastating global outage on Monday that left thousands of businesses in limbo – and shed light on the UK government’s reliance on its cloud computing business, Amazon Web Services (AWS). Continue reading...

Economics

1 week ago Top lawyers rounding on chief prosecutor over China spy case collapse rebuked

A CPS source says legal experts are entitled to offer an opinion ‘based on published documents and media reports’.

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2 w. ago Witness statement for China spy case was 'just 5 per cent short of being enough', CPS head claims

Pressure was building last night on the Director of Public Prosecutions to explain why the China spy case was dropped even though there was bombshell evidence against the accused.

Politics

2 w. ago MI5 chief ‘frustrated’ by China spy case as No 10 defends Starmer’s approach

Sir Ken McCallum warned ‘Chinese state actors’ present a national security threat to the UK ‘every day’.

Politics

2 w. ago Ministers face grilling from MPs on China spying case collapse TODAY with pressure on Starmer's Blairite national security chief

The prosecution against Chris Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, collapsed last month when the Government refused to classify Beijing as a threat to national security.

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3 w. ago Fury as Bridget Phillipson says CPS failed to properly prosecute China spy scandal and insists security chief has Starmer's full backing

The Education Secretary also claimed Keir Starmer has 'full confidence' in his beleaguered national security adviser Jonathan Powell.

Events

3 w. ago Starmer has 'full confidence' in Blairite national security chief Jonathan Powell despite mounting fury at China spying case shambles

Cabinet minister Bridget Phillipson insisted the PM is still behind the key adviser as MPs demand answers.

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3 w. ago Starmer national security adviser accused of blocking spy case is senior member of shadowy lobby club China 'uses to groom UK elite'

Jonathan Powell was at the heart of the Chinese spying row was a member of a secretive network used by Beijing to cultivate Britain's elites.

Events

3 w. ago Starmer national security adviser accused of blocking spy case is senior member of shadowy lobby club China 'uses to groom UK elite' 

Jonathan Powell was at the heart of the Chinese spying row was a member of a secretive network used by Beijing to cultivate Britain's elites.

Events

3 w. ago Spy case prosecutors weren’t given MI5 papers on China threat, claims ex

The case against two men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed last month

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3 w. ago Starmer's China spying case crisis deepens: Former civil service chief dismisses idea Beijing could not be described as a 'threat'

Former Cabinet Secretary Lord Case pointed out that intelligence chiefs had been publicly describing Beijing as a 'threat' for 'years'.

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3 w. ago Carte blanche for China to spy on Britain: Espionage case collapsed after Government advisers refused to brand Beijing a national security threat, CPS chief reveals

Director of Public Prosecutions Stephen Parkinson revealed that the China spy case collapsed after the Government's national security adviser refused to provide crucial evidence.

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3 w. ago Sir Keir Starmer's national security chief won't have to face a public grilling over collapse of China spy case with committee hearing to be held behind closed doors

Sir Keir Starmer's security chief is to face questions in Parliament about the Chinese spying case - but behind closed doors.

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4 w. ago ANDREW PIERCE: Starmer's security chief Jonathan Powell is a shadowy figure with more influence than any minister

Buried in the depths of No 10, on the desk of national security adviser Jonathan Powell, sits a special phone for secure communications with his White House counterpart, writes ANDREW PIERCE.

Politics

4 w. ago Starmer's national security chief Jonathan Powell 'must face MPs to explain collapse of China spying trial' amid claims Blairite insisted Beijing would NOT be classed as an 'enemy'

Jonathan Powell is reported to have made clear that the Government would classify Beijing as a 'challenge' rather than an 'enemy' of the UK in evidence for the case.

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4 w. ago Starmer's chief of staff 'not behind PM's Nigel Farage racism jibe' but 'backs it 100 per cent'

Sources say No10's chief of staff Morgan McSweeney has privately said he was not responsible for the Prime Minister's claim that Nigel Farage's migrants policy was racist.

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