{"id":74354,"date":"2025-09-20T17:04:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/20\/parliament-vulnerable-to-foreign-actors-after-china-spying-charges-dropped-commons-speaker-says"},"modified":"2025-09-20T17:04:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T08:04:50","slug":"parliament-vulnerable-to-foreign-actors-after-china-spying-charges-dropped-commons-speaker-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74354","title":{"rendered":"Parliament vulnerable to \u2018foreign actors\u2019 after China spying charges dropped, Commons speaker says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Hoyle says decision by prosecutors to drop case \u2018leaves the door open\u2019 to spies<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/20\/collapse-uk-spy-trial-china-christopher-cash-christopher-berry\">The aide, the associate and the \u2018Chinese agent\u2019 \u2013 and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trial<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The UK parliament has been left vulnerable to \u201cforeign actors\u201d after charges against two men suspected of spying for China were dropped, the speaker of the House of Commons has warned.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the Times, Lindsay Hoyle said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/15\/british-prosecutors-drop-case-against-two-men-accused-of-spying-for-china\">the decision to drop the charges<\/a> effectively gave Beijing \u201clicence to operate\u201d within parliament.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2025\/sep\/20\/parliament-vulnerable-to-foreign-actors-after-china-spying-charges-dropped-commons-speaker-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lindsay Hoyle says decision by prosecutors to drop case \u2018leaves the door open\u2019 to spiesThe aide, the associate and the \u2018Chinese agent\u2019 \u2013 and the collapse of a long-awaited UK spy trialThe UK parliament has been left vulnerable to \u201cforeign actors\u201d after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4987,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50,3400,667,1832,4,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-commons-speaker","category-espionage","category-house-of-commons","category-politics","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4987"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74355,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74354\/revisions\/74355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}