Care minister Stephen Kinnock has refused to say the government will publish contextual meeting minutes and correspondence around Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Collins’ written evidence to the CPS. Speaking to GB News Kinnock said there are “government processes and protocols around this, of course we have to be very careful about the information that gets released.” Kinnock found time to praise Starmer for the “huge amounts of transparency” he showed in deploying the red herring evidence…
Kinnock added the published statements “clearly show the position of the government from the Conservative to Labour transition.” This is despite the fact that the new evidence provided in August contains political language to describe China literally lifted from the Labour manifesto…
The minister claimed “the broad position has remained the same which is that youcan’t boil the relationship with China down to one word of it being an enemy, you have to see it in the round in terms of all of the important cooperation we need to have with them on vital issues like climate change.” Crikey…
The government is now going hard on its blame game with the CPS over the case’s collapse. Poisoned chalice…