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Diplomatic tensions escalate amid rows over planning hold-ups and collapse of spying trialTensions between Britain and China have escalated after Beijing criticised further delays to a planning decision on its proposed “mega embassy” in London.China’s …
Stephen Parkinson called on to give ‘fuller explanation’ as MI5 expresses frustration over charges being droppedThe director of public prosecutions has come under intense cross-party pressure to explain why the China spy trial collapsed as MI5 expresse…
Ken McCallum, the domestic spy chief, says he will ‘never back off’ from confronting threats from BeijingThe MI5 director general, Ken McCallum, has acknowledged his frustration at the failure to put on trial two Britons who had been accused of spying …
Labour MP and chair of security committee Matt Western says there are ‘a lot of questions yet to be asked’Questions for CPS after No 10 publishes key witness statements in China spy rowMPs will hold an inquiry into the collapse of the caseagainst two m…
Statement by deputy national security adviser was central to CPS decision to withdraw spying charges against two menDowning Street will publish a witness statement from the deputy national security adviser that is seen as central to the decision to wit…
Prime minister hopes to learn from success of scheme rolled out to most of country’s 1.4bn citizensKeir Starmer is to examine India’s digital ID system on his visit to Mumbai as a potential model for the UK, praising the system as a “massive success”.S…
Decision time is coming after Labour called in the planning application for the new building in east LondonIn 2018, a prime piece of real estate near the Tower of London that was once home to a Cistercian abbey and later became the historic manufacturi…
Person who was thought to have received intelligence is understood to be Cai Qi, de facto chief of staff to Xi JinpingBritish prosecutors suspected that China’s fifth most senior official was in receipt of intelligence from Westminster in a controversi…
Activist Jagtar Singh Johal has been held in Indian prison for nearly eight years without full trial The sisters of the British-Egyptian human rights campaigner Alaa Abd el-Fattah have intervened for the first time since his release from prison in Eg…
Exclusive: Ex-minister being tried in absentia in Bangladesh claims ID card and passport tendered as evidence not hersThe former City minister Tulip Siddiq has said she fears prosecutors could be planning to use “fake” documents to secure her convictio…
Lindsay Hoyle says decision by prosecutors to drop case ‘leaves the door open’ to spiesThe aide, the associate and the ‘Chinese agent’ – and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trialThe UK parliament has been left vulnerable to “foreign actors” after…
Jean Garner objects to his monument in the Shropshire town and is hoping for Thangam Debbonaire’s support in getting it removedThangam Debbonaire is concerned about visiting Indian citizens and dignitaries having to walk past a statue of Robert Clive i…
We must continue to challenge claims that nuclear weapons are a ‘necessity’, says Caroline Lucas, while Gerry Weston says they don’t protect us from Russian aggression and Michael Newman says they didn’t end the second world warPolly Toynbee is right t…
Thangam Debbonaire says Indian visitors to the ministry should not have to walk past ‘historically inaccurate’ bronzeUK politics live – latest updatesA prominent Labour peer has called for a statue of Clive of India to be removed from its high-profile …
Exclusive: MP and niece of ousted Bangladesh prime minister says allegations against her are ‘completely absurd’“There’s no extradition treaty, I looked that up myself actually,” says Tulip Siddiq, the MP for Hampstead and Highgate and a Treasury minis…