Well, well, well. Just days after MI5 alerted MPs and peers to Chinese espionage threats, it appears that Prime Minister Keir Starmer could be ready to give a Chinese embassy in London the green light. According to the Times , two Whitehall departments will submit their responses to the proposals in the next few days, ahead of the decision being made on 10 December. Despite warnings from intelligence chiefs about spying, and concerns about cables beneath the site connecting to the City of London, neither the Home Office nor the Foreign Office are expected to object – as long as the right ‘mitigations’ are in place.

The decision follows the collapse of the China spy case, in which two men accused of passing intelligence to the Chinese – Chris Cash and Christopher Berry – walked away afte

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