China spy case collapse blamed on UK government's failure to brand Beijing a threat

The case against two British men accused of spying for Beijing collapsed last month after the UK government’s refusal to designate China as an "enemy" and a threat to national security, Britain’s top prosecutor has said.

In a rare intervention, Stephen Parkinson, the UK's director of public prosecutions, wrote to politicians to say that prosecutors had done "everything possible" to bring the case against Christopher Cash, 30, and Christopher Berry, 33, to court.