British Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday released a key witness statement from a senior official in the case against two men accused of spying for China , aiming to show that the prosecution’s collapse was not the result of political interference.

In an unexpected move last month, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service dropped charges against two British men who had denied passing politically sensitive information to a Chinese intelligence agent.

The CPS said the case was dropped because it needed evidence showing that the UK considered China a threat to national security, but the government had not provided it after months of requests.

While the newly published documents detailed Chinese malign activity, they did not unequivocally state that China posed a threat to UK national

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