Liz Truss: Sunak should declare China a threat.
The former Prime Minister of England, in response to the news of the arrest of an investigator of the country’s parliament on charges of spying for China, requested that the London government designate China as a “threat”
Former British Prime Minister Liz Truss, at the head of a group of other conservative lawmakers, claimed that current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak should be seen as a “threat” by Beijing in response to the report of the arrest of a House of Commons investigator on charges of spying for China. to determine
According to “Press Association” news agency, this reaction of representatives supporting hostility towards China in the British Conservative Party was raised after “Olivier Dowden”, the Deputy Prime Minister of England, in a statement he published in response to this arrest, claimed that China “challenges Systematic” for Britain.
Liz Truss, who became Prime Minister on September 6 of last year and resigned from her position 44 days later, in the British House of Commons along with several other representatives of the conservative party of this country such as Iain Duncan Smith and Bernard Jenkin. Rishi Sunak asked the government to declare China a “threat” against Britain.
On Sunday, the English newspaper Sunday Times reported that a researcher who worked for the House of Commons and another man were arrested by British police in March on suspicion of spying for the Chinese government.
According to the Sunday Times report, this researcher worked on issues related to international politics and was in close contact with several senior members of the Conservative Party, including British Security Secretary Tom Tugendhat and Alicia Cairns, the head of the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee. He also had access to sensitive classified information.