At the post-PMQs Lobby briefing, Starmer’s spokesman was asked to repeat the PM’s claim that no one other than Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Collins discussed the Chinese spy case. The spokesman floundered:
“We’ve been very clear that the National Security Adviser made no decisions on the content relating to evidence in the case. The CPS has been very clear that [long pause] that the window between the point of charge and the decision not to continue with the prosecution that evidence could not be discussed. The witnesses have an expectation that their evidence would not be discussed.”
There is no way Keir Starmer was not aware and involved in the government’s effective decision not to pursue the case by failing to assist the CPS…
On whether the government would release minutes of the meeting Jonathan Powell attended in September, the PM’s spokesman again obfuscated, saying the “process of fullest publication of the witness statements is our focus.” A complete red herring…
