The Government has denied claims that it intervened in the failed prosecution of two men accused of spying for China in order to avoid formally declaring the country an “enemy”.

Why is there an argument about whether China is an enemy of the UK?

Two men were due to stand trial for allegedly supplying a Chinese intelligence agent with information that was “prejudicial to the safety or interests” of the UK. However, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) unexpectedly abandoned the case last month.

Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, has now explained that under the Official Secrets Act, the case relied upon Beijing being officially classed as “a threat to the national security of the UK” while the alleged offences supposedly took place, between December 2021 and Febru

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