Chief prosecutor says top official would not call China an enemy
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PA Media Stephen Parkinson has broken his silence ahead of a committee appearance
The director of public prosecutions has said the China spy case collapsed because a top national security official could not say the country had been classed as an "enemy" when the Conservatives were in power. In a letter to MPs, Stephen Parkinson said the unwillingness of Deputy National Security Adviser Matt Collins to say that China had been an active threat to national security between 2021 and 2023 was "fatal to the case". Parkinson has been under pressure to explain why two men were charged with spying only for the case against them to collapse 16 months later wit
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