No 10 denies government involved in collapse of China spying case

Download Street strongly rejected the government’s collapse of a prosecution against two people accused of espionage for China.

Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry, who both deny the allegations – Reduced by prosecutors in SeptemberCriticism of ministers and deputies.

The secretary of the press number 10, “the government hid the evidence, withdraws witnesses, or a witness’s proposal to limit the ability to benefit from a certain evidence, all is wrong,” he said.

Coming later Sunday Times Report Senior Whitehall officials met to discuss the hearing at the beginning of last month without the accusations.

Mr. Cash and Mr. Berry, a former parliamentary researcher, were accused in April 2024, when the conservatives came to power, under the official Secrets’ Law.

Between December 2021 and February 2023, they were accused of gathering and providing prejudiced information for the security and interests of the state.

Various sources close to the trial, BBC’e CPS’nin the Law is not sure that there is not enough evidence to meet the threshold will not decide to blame the couple, he said.

In accordance with the official secrets law, anyone accused of espionage can only be tried for a useful for an enemy.

However, the Public Prosecutor’s Office Director Stephen Parkinson, who led the CPS last month, said, “Evidence no longer has the evidence no longer has a test of evidence,” he said.

The official spokesman of the Prime Minister said that the decision was “completely independent of the government” by the CPS, and “there was no role for any government minister or a government member in this decision -making process.”

The authority added that the government was “disappointed” that the prosecution is not progressing.

Mr. Parkinson also played no “external pressure” role in the CPS decision.

At a meeting held last month, Sunday Times announced that the national security strategy of the national security adviser, Jonathan Powell, will be based on the national security strategy published in June and does not refer to China as a “enemy”.

When asked if there was a meeting in Whitehall that there was a meeting that China could not be called an enemy in court, the prime minister spokesman said, “No.”

The Minister said that the government’s evidence in the case was based on the policy of the previous government, which was relevant when the alleged crimes took place between 2021 and 2023.

The conservative government’s position at the time was to define China as a “a square that defines a period,” not an enemy.

The decision to make accusations against couples, including the President of Commons Sir Lindsay Hoyle, said that he could leave parliament vulnerable to espionage.

Alicia Kearns, a conservative deputy who previously employed Mr. Cash as a parliamentary researcher, said that the “collapse of the hearing” collapse “without the ministry or national security advisor or administrator participation.

“The crown prosecution service has made this decision independently,” the BBC Radio 4 said to the TODAY program earlier.

“However, it seems very clear that their prosecution capabilities are nervous.”

“The standard of reviews was welcomed when the charges were made and something happened, and I was afraid that the hearing took place in the last few weeks, that something changed, and the standard of evidence was no longer met because something was withdrawn.” He said.

He continued: “This is only if a witness withdrew, the evidence withdrawn, or a civil servant withdrawn the intelligence that he expects to operate …

“Ministers or Senior Consultants [Keir] They were contradictory and disrespectful to Starmer’s full knowledge or their own wishes.

China’s vocal critic, Kearns, said the government was worried that the government “put our national security in second place” because the government wanted to reset relations with Beijing.

David Lammy in October 2024 Visiting China was the only second secretary in six yearsBeijing and London “have to find pragmatic solutions to complex challenges,” he said.

Since last year’s general elections, the worker sought closer trade relations with China to help increase economic growth.