When I set up the China Research Group, I made sure everything we did was public.
I knew we’d be hacked so I made sure we had nothing to hide. Beijing had other ideas.
They weren’t after government secrets, we didn’t have those, but the info needed to target someone.
What do they like? Who are their friends? Where are they going? They found someone to help.
After working with the CRG for a while, one employee got back in touch with a friend of his now living in Beijing.
The two Brits — a GP’s son who seemed committed to public service, and a teacher in China — then began, it’s alleged, to sell information to Beijing’s spies.
What they gave was important enough to get the attention of one of the top five people in a country of 1.4 billion and, it is said, make them a few thousand pounds.
I say alleged because the spying trial against them collapsed when the government failed to confirm that China was a threat.
What is so obviously true, the government didn’t dare say.
Labour dropped the ball.
Not everyone is as frit as them. Beijing has sanctioned me for speaking out and clearly fears what I say and do.
Now they’re trying to discredit me. Good luck, I’ve got nothing to hide. If they want to dig through my personal life, they’re welcome to waste their time.
What I do care about is what happened next, because that’s where the real scandal lies.
Police spent 18 months building a solid case. Intelligence officers gathered evidence that police called a “slam dunk.” The trial was ready to go, then Labour blew it.
They’ve made so many excuses recently it’s hard to know what’s going on but the truth is simple.
We had been clear China was a threat. I had said it many times including in the House of Commons. The civil servant who was speaking for them, wouldn’t say it.
This isn’t about an independent court, it didn’t get that far.
It’s about whether the person the government put up to make their case was prepared to say what we all know – China is a threat and has been for years.
This is dereliction of duty, pure and simple. Alleged spies who targeted Parliament walk free, and the message to China couldn’t be clearer: attack Britain all you want because we won’t fight back.
This isn’t just about Parliament—it gives a green light to our enemies.
Beijing has targeted our hospitals. They’ve stolen patient records, medical histories, private health information. They’ve delayed operations, and no doubt cost lives.
They’ve hacked blood testing services that millions of Brits depend on.
China has hacked into our food supply. Our supermarket chains have been hit and the systems that control our food distribution.
Remember when shelves were empty during Covid?
Imagine that happening because China decided to shut down our supply chains.
But that’s not all. They’ve stolen jobs from across our country. Stealing ideas and technology in energy and agriculture worth billions.
For decades, China has been stealing British manufacturing secrets — not just from big corporations, but from small businesses across the country.
They steal designs, processes, innovations that British workers spent years developing.
Then they copy everything, make it cheaper, often using forced labour, and sell it back to us at prices our companies can’t match.
Factories close. Jobs disappear. Entire industries move abroad. This is happening right now, in towns across Britain where people are watching their futures disappear.
If we want people to invest in our future, we need to be protected. The failure to prosecute says we’re not.
Our intelligence agencies did their job. Our police did their job. Our prosecutors were ready to take this spy to court. But our government bottled it.
If the government won’t prosecute when Parliament itself is spied on, why should any business owner believe they’ll be protected when China comes after them?
Why should factory bosses report Chinese espionage when they see the government do nothing?
We’re telling China: go ahead, spy on us, steal from us, attack us. We’ll talk tough, we’ll pass laws, but when it matters, we’ll do nothing.
We need to stop pretending China is our friend. They’re not trading with us because they like us but because they need our money. We can fight back.
I passed the new National Security Act 2023 to protect us. But laws are useless if politicians are too scared to use them.
Government exists to do two things: defend the nation and deliver justice. This government has failed at both.
Your job, your NHS, your family’s future are all at risk if ministers won’t use the powers to fight for us. This government just proved it prefers surrender.