{"id":74954,"date":"2025-10-29T22:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/defence-lawyers-would-have-used-tories-statements-to-dismiss-china-spy-case-attorney-general-says"},"modified":"2025-10-29T22:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T13:24:19","slug":"defence-lawyers-would-have-used-tories-statements-to-dismiss-china-spy-case-attorney-general-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=74954","title":{"rendered":"Defence lawyers would have used Tories\u2019 statements to dismiss China spy case, attorney general says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hermer says failure by Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly to describe China as a threat would have been seized on in trial<\/p>\n<p>Defence lawyers would have used <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/kemi-badenoch\">Kemi Badenoch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/james-cleverly\">James Cleverly<\/a>\u2019s statements about China to dismiss a case against two men charged with spying for Beijing, the attorney general has argued.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/politics\/richard-hermer\">Richard Hermer<\/a> told parliament \u201cthere would have been plenty of reference\u201d by lawyers defending Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry\u2019s to Conservative ministers\u2019 policy positions had the trial gone ahead.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2025\/oct\/29\/defence-lawyers-would-have-used-tories-statements-to-dismiss-china-spy-case-attorney-general-says\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Hermer says failure by Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly to describe China as a threat would have been seized on in trialDefence lawyers would have used Kemi Badenoch and James Cleverly\u2019s statements about China to dismiss a case against two men &#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":[50,667,2899,3304,4,3433,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-china","category-espionage","category-james-cleverly","category-kemi-badenoch","category-politics","category-richard-hermer","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\/74954","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=74954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74955,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74954\/revisions\/74955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}