37 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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38 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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38 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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39 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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40 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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40 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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41 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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41 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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41 h. ago Starmer intervention in China spy case collapse would have been ‘absurd’ – No 10

The CPS dropped the case after deeming the evidence did not show China was a threat to national security.

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45 h. ago China spy case row: Pressure mounts on Keir Starmer as witness statements are revealed

In the statements, deputy national security adviser Matt Collins called China ‘the biggest state-based threat to the UK’s economic security’

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47 h. ago China is a national security threat to the UK, spy case official warned

Labour prime minister Keir Starmer facing questions after witness statements provided for the trial of two men who allegedly spied for China also say government is ‘committed to pursuing a positive relationship’ with Beijing

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54 h. ago Starmer faces more questions after publishing China spy case evidence

The CPS dropped the case after deeming the evidence did not show China was a threat to national security.

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65 h. ago Lib Dems call for national security services to ‘assess threat’ Elon Musk poses to British democracy

The Liberal Democrats have called for national security services to “assess the threat” that Elon Musk poses to British democracy, after Tommy Robinson claimed that the billionaire was paying his legal costs.

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3 d. ago UK’s cyber security agency warns of ‘sophisticated’ threat from Chinese hackers

The number of serious attacks from across all sources in the most recent 12-month period hit record levels.

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4 d. ago China represents a 'highly sophisticated and capable threat', Britain's cyber security to warn

Richard Horne (pictured), head of GCHQ 's National Cyber Security Centre, will set out in an annual review the 'significant threat' Britain faces from hostile states

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4 d. ago Tories seek to keep up pressure over collapse of Chinese spying case

The director of public prosecutions has been asked if the case could be resumed if the Government declares Beijing is a threat to national security.

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4 d. 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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6 d. ago King Charles hiring security advisor to protect royal palaces amid 'substantial' terrorist threat

The Royal Family is hiring a new top security advisor to protect the royal palaces from the possibility of terrorist attacks, as the UK's threat level remains 'substantial'

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7 d. ago UK must work with China but there are ‘security threats', admits Foreign Secretary

Yvette Cooper on Friday declined to say whether she has seen a dossier outlining China as a threat to Britain's national security

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8 d. ago Former top British official says China is a threat to UK national security

Mark Sedwill adds to pressure on Keir Starmer by saying he is ‘puzzled’ why a Chinese spy case collapsed

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