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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
National
Shaun Wilson

Fury over plans for 'spy dungeons' beneath new Chinese embassy in London

The proposed new Chinese embassy would be built close to the Tower of London - (PA Wire)

Downing Street is under fire over revived plans to build a vast Chinese "super embassy" in London — a proposal previously blocked by the former Conservative government.

Planning documents for the proposed site, located at the historic Royal Mint buildings near the Tower of London, reveal “two suites of anonymous unlabelled basement rooms and a tunnel”, with their intended purpose redacted “for security reasons”.

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