As one big Conservative monster after another comes face to face Hunger Games On election night, one escaped the carnage: the former Conservative leader, Sir Iain Duncan Smith, stood on the podium with former and current Labour candidates who had done him a great service by their bitter infighting. The electoral officer for Chingford and… Read More »
Late Wednesday evening, Matt Briggs opened a bottle of ice-cold champagne and raised his glass to toast a framed picture of his late wife, Kim. It was the end of a whirlwind day sitting in the House of Commons and watching parliamentary history being made. An amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill was unanimously approved… Read More »
A Cabinet minister has described China as a “security threat” as the government faces demands for the country to be officially labeled a “threat”. The government now describes China as an “epoch-defining challenge” but has faced pressure from MPs in the House of Commons to formally upgrade its assessment of Beijing. The volume of these… Read More »
Oliver Dowden tells House of Commons any hostile cyber activity against British MPs is ‘completely unacceptable’ – AFP The US and UK have uncovered a global Chinese hacking plot targeting White House staff and the Foreign Office, as well as British MPs and the Electoral Commission. Washington and London announced sanctions against two individuals and… Read More »
From top left to right: Ni Gaobin; WengMing; and Cheng Feng. From bottom left to right: Peng Yaowen; Sun Xiaohui; Xiong Wang; and Zhao Guangzong The US government has released images of seven Chinese hackers wanted on charges of infiltrating the communications of targets in Britain and America over a 14-year period. In a newly… Read More »
Ministers have been accused of being too weak in their response to China following a cyberattack on Britain’s election watchdog, which accessed the names and addresses of millions of voters. Britain said it summoned China’s ambassador to protest and acted with its “Five Eyes” intelligence partners, including the United States, while the United States imposed… Read More »
Rishi Sunak faces a growing rebellion over immigration, with senior Tories backing a cabinet minister’s call for a crackdown on foreign NHS staff. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick has piled fresh pressure on the prime minister after shock figures showing net migration reached a new record of 745,000 last year sparked a fierce debate within his… Read More »