Keir Starmer intervention in China spy case collapse would have been ‘absurd’ says No 10

Actors acting on behalf of the Chinese state engaging in activity that threatens UK national security, yes of course, every day in life. I've described that today, I've described it in previous years, that will continue to be true. It's a whole series of different vectors of national security activity that we deal with. Alongside that of course sits a different question which is what should the overall balance of the UK's kind of nation-to-nation relationship with China be? That one is a matter for government.