The UK should officially designate China a national security threat, Tory frontbencher Dame Priti Patel has said, as she accused the government of “desperation” in its early dealings with Beijing.
Speaking in the wake of the row over Prince Andrew’s links to alleged Chinese spy Yang Tengbo, who was barred from the UK after being judged likely to pose a threat to national security, Dame Priti warned that Xi Jinping’s “extraordinary regime” has “had all sorts of incursions in our country”.
