{"id":74776,"date":"2025-10-16T20:48:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T11:48:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2025\/oct\/16\/prosecutions-director-must-explain-why-china-spy-case-was-dropped-says-minister"},"modified":"2025-10-16T22:43:27","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T13:43:27","slug":"mps-to-hold-inquiry-into-collapsed-china-spy-case-after-no-10-publishes-key-evidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74776","title":{"rendered":"MPs to hold inquiry into collapsed China spy case after No 10 publishes key evidence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP and chair of security committee Matt Western says there are \u2018a lot of questions yet to be asked\u2019<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/oct\/15\/no-10-publishes-key-witness-statements-in-china-spy-row\">Questions for CPS after No 10 publishes key witness statements in China spy row<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>MPs will hold an inquiry into the collapse of the caseagainst two men accused of spying for China, after No 10 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/2025\/oct\/15\/no-10-publishes-key-witness-statements-in-china-spy-row\">published key evidence<\/a> in an attempt to draw a line under the row.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Western, a Labour MP and chair of the joint committee on the national security strategy, told the House of Commons there were \u201ca lot of questions yet to be asked\u201d and announced a formal inquiry.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2025\/oct\/16\/prosecutions-director-must-explain-why-china-spy-case-was-dropped-says-minister\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Labour MP and chair of security committee Matt Western says there are \u2018a lot of questions yet to be asked\u2019Questions 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4155,"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":[50,904,3411,667,1622,902,86,4,3420,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-conservatives","category-crown-prosecution-service","category-espionage","category-keir-starmer","category-labour","category-law","category-politics","category-stephen-kinnock","category-uk-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776","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\/4155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74786,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74776\/revisions\/74786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}