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Sir Keir Starmer’s team had access to “multiple” documents which proved China was a national security risk before the collapse of a spying trial, the shadow home secretary has claimed, amid growing questions over the government’s willingness to confront Beijing.
Chris Philp claimed the government could have handed these papers over to prosecutors, but they “chose not to”, accusing ministers of having “destroyed the prosecution” of two men accused of spying for Beijing.
It comes as Yvette Cooper, who was in charge of MI5 at the time, said she wanted the case prosecuted and was “deeply frustrated” when it collapsed.
But she added that ministers were “not involved in any of the evidence that was put to the Crown Prosecution Service ...
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