A major prosecution against two British men accused of spying for China has collapsed in a heap of ignominy and recrimination. The head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has, very unusually, blamed the government for this humiliation; the prime minister (himself a former head of the CPS) has denied any such thing.
It has raised some awkward questions about Britain’s increasingly complicated relationship with the People’s Republic…
What exactly were they accused of?
Details are unclear, and now we may never know the full picture, but they were charged under the 1911 Official Secrets Act
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