14 h. ago MI5 thwarted China attack in past week, chief reveals as he warns Beijing presents daily threat to UK security

Sir Ken McCallum admitted he was ‘frustrated’ over spy case collapse as CPS faces further questions over failure to prosecute

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15 h. 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’.

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15 h. ago MI5 thwarted China attack in past week, chief reveals as he says Beijing presents daily threat to UK security

Sir Ken McCallum also admits frustration over spy case collapse as CPS faces further questions over failure to prosecute

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16 h. ago MI5 chief says China is a daily threat to UK security amid row over collapse of spying case

The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence agency says China poses a daily threat to the United Kingdom’s security

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17 h. ago MI5 chief says Chinese spies pose threat to UK national security 'every day'

Sir Ken McCallum says UK needs to ‘defend itself resolutely’ against Beijing amid row over alleged spying at Westminster

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17 h. ago MI5 chief says China presents daily threat to UK security as he admits frustration over spy case collapse

MPs have launched an inquiry into the collapsed China spying case

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18 h. ago MI5 thwarted Chinese plot to attack Britain's national security last week as spy chief says UK 'needs to up its game' against outside threats

Sir Ken McCallum vowed that he would 'never back off from confronting threats to the UK' after a critical espionage case collapsed when Government refused to describe Beijing as Britain's enemy.

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18 h. ago MI5 chief ‘frustrated’ at failure to put men accused of spying for China on trial

Ken McCallum, the domestic spy chief, says he will ‘never back off’ from confronting threats from BeijingUK politics live – latest updatesThe MI5 director general, Ken McCallum, has acknowledged his frustration at the failure to put on trial two Britons who had been accused of spying for China, in an apparent rebuke to prosecutors who dropped the high-profile case last month.The domestic spy chief insisted he would “never back off” from confronting threats from Beijing, which he said posed a national security threat “every day”, although the wider UK-China relationship was a matter for the government. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago MI5 chief reveals China plot disrupted last week and warns of 'daily' security threat

Sir Ken McCallum, the Director General of MI5, said the intelligence service had intervened operationally to disrupt a threat connected to China in the last week

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23 h. ago Tories put pressure on Starmer following release of China spy case statements

Kemi Badenoch questioned why the final witness statement submitted in the case set out Sir Keir Starmer’s approach to relations with Beijing.

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31 h. ago 'Starmer failed to defend our nation': Anger that Prime Minister knew for days spy case would collapse

The Prime Minister was informed 'a couple of days' in advance that the case was on the brink, but he did not intervene, Downing Street confirmed.

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9 d. ago Keir Starmer defends government over Chinese spy case collapse

The case against Christopher Cash, a former parliamentary researcher, and Christopher Berry was suddenly dropped by the Crown Prosecution Service on September 15

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2 w. ago Britain might 'already be at war with Russia' as Putin launches cyber

Eliza Manningham-Buller said Moscow's 'extensive' deployment of cyber attacks, intelligence work, 'physical attacks' and 'sabotage' in Britain are tantamount to conflict.

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