The Crown Prosecution Service is now pointing the finger at Labour over the collapse of the China spies trial, after the Government refused to describe China as a security threat. Even the CPS’s Director of Public Prosecutions has waded in…
Writing last night, DPP Stephen Parkinson said the CPS were directly challenging Number 10 because “government briefings have been provided, commenting on the evidential situation”, with Labour failing for more than a year to provide evidence that could have shown the accused spies – Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry -were aligned to a hostile state. Leading the CPS to conclude it no longer had the sufficient material to prosecute…
As Guido revealed yesterday, National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell is in the firing line over this mess. He has, in the recent past, held a series of private meetings with figures close to and part of the Chinese Communist Party. Keir Starmer, who ran the CPS as its Director of Public Prosecutions in a previous life, is running a government which state prosecutors are publicly suggesting is a threat to national security. His own successor as DPP is now laying the blame at his doorstep…
