Remembering Corporal Ian Plank, Special Boat Service, killed by hostile fire during a Coalition operation in Iraq late on 31st October 2003 aged 31. #Iraq
👇@DanJarvisMBE fails to answer the key question: Why did the DSNA not respond to a request for him to say in his evidence that China poses a current threat and who told him not to. This is the Q that no-one seems willing to answer.
OK, this is the nub,
Pars from 21 Feb 2025 and the 4 August 2025 statements excerpted. 👇
Are we expected to believe the Deputy National Security Advisor just decided to included these two POLITICAL statements about the CURRENT government's policy with no political input?
There appears to be a smoking gun in the Collins statements.
Ministers have said they could only use old Conservative policy in evidence.
But this "three Cs" approach, detailed by Collins, is David Lammy's policy. Therefore it appears Labour was able to define China itself.
This pact to carve up the Chagos Islands between Mauritius and India has been announced before the UK has ratified the initial surrender deal.
The UK Parliament must now cancel the deal - protect sovereignty, safeguard security, and deliver self-determination for Chagossians.
Rumours are swirling over why the Mauritian PM is back in legal talks over Chagos Islands:
Is it because…
🇲🇺 Mauritius misled the ICJ to secure its ruling
💰 They want yet more UK taxpayer money
🇮🇳 They plan on carving Chagos up with India
Spoiler: it could be all three.
The China Spy Scandal reeks of a cover-up.
If Labour had a backbone, they'd come clean. Instead, they're hiding behind excuses.
Watch @KemiBadenoch systematically destroy Labour's weak attempt at evading the truth 👇
The UK 🇬🇧 is in economic collapse. The people who start business and invest in the economy are fleeing at a rate unseen anywhere else in the western world.
The govt is supported by voters entirely dependent on the welfare state, and those who fund the welfare state are exiting.
"The idea of throwing Matt Collins under the bus is frankly pretty low."
"This is a really serious incident."
Conservative MP Tom Tugendhat reacts to the collapsed China spy case and says Deputy National Security Adviser Matthew Collins shouldn't be blamed.
#Newsnight
“Do you have any confidence in this man, Matthew Collins? Can he keep his job on this basis?”
@Peston challenges Foreign Secretary @YvetteCooperMP on the government’s handling of the collapsed Chinese spying case
Watch the full interview tonight on ITV1 at 1045pm
#Peston
SPOILER - Cabinet Office Civil Servants responsible for vetting knew that both Labour’s National Security Advisor Jonathan Powell and US Ambassador Peter Mandelson were members of the ‘elite’ Chinese Communist 48 Group Club. They told Keir Starmer, who appointed them anyway.