UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has ordered a security review after the US shot down four unidentified objects believed to be ‘Chinese spy balloons’.
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has warned that fighter jets are on standby to be launched within minutes to take down any that enter our airspace.
It’s after transport minister Richard Holden, a former special adviser at the Ministry of Defence, said that the Government is concerned about potential espionage.
The Evening Standard’s Political Editor, Nicholas Cecil, discusses the political significance of the situation.
In part two, Dr Dan Lomas, Senior Lecturer in Intelligence and Security Studies at Brunel University London, explains just how concerned we should all be about potential Chinese spy balloons over the UK…
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