Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster Alex Burghart calls out potential “miscarriage of justice” as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch claims the China spy case collapsed because the government had refused to give the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) "vital information”. Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
00:00So yesterday in the House of Commons, Kemi Badenoch set out all of the times when the last Conservative government described China as a threat.
00:08But in basic terms, if two people, and the two people are alleged to have gone into work in the House of Commons
00:15and taken information and passed it to another government for purposes of spying,
00:21as far as we're concerned, this should be enough to bring a trial, and the CPS thought it would be enough to bring a trial as well.
00:28They asked the government to provide certain information, which the government has not done.
00:33We are asking the government, first, to provide that information, and second, to explain why it has so far chosen not to do so.
00:40It is not right that there is a potential major miscarriage of justice, because the government has not provided the information the CPS has asked it to.
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