Kinnock: We are ‘disappointed’ China spy case fell through

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Minister of State for Care Stephen Kinnock confirms the government is “very disappointed” that prosecutions for the China spy case did not go ahead.  Report by Ajagbef. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00The government's very disappointed that these prosecutions didn't continue.

00:05We are clear that the alleged offences took place between 2021 and 2023

00:10under the previous Conservative government.

00:14At that time, the legal basis for these sort of prosecutions

00:18was the Official Secrets Act of 1911,

00:21a very antiquated piece of legislation that clearly wasn't fit for purpose in the modern age.

00:25Sadly, the Conservatives took eight years to change and update that legislation.

00:31I don't know what they were doing in that time.

00:32Perhaps they were dealing with party gate, botching Brexit,

00:37or even crashing the economy under Liz Truss.

00:39They were clearly distracted and were not able to act in relation to our national security.

00:44The reality of the situation we are in now is that because those offences took place

00:49between 2021 and 2023, and because of the legal basis at that time,

00:54the Crown Prosecution Service has felt that it wasn't possible to continue the case.

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