Labour: Govt must take national security more seriously

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Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has called for an “overall audit” of the UK’s relationship with China, after a parliamentary researcher was arrested on suspicion of spying for the country.

The Labour frontbencher said: “Clearly there are risks to our national security from China that are not being taken seriously enough … we have to cooperate with China on things like climate change but we also have to make sure that our national security is protected.” Report by Buseld. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 These are really serious allegations about spying at the heart of our democracy.
00:05 The government set up a Defending Democracy Task Force after warnings were given by MI5
00:13 about the risks of political interference.
00:16 But it appears to have done really nothing in the time since it was set up.
00:20 I think that is a serious problem.
00:22 They do need to take issues around our national security much more seriously.
00:27 Clearly there are risks to our national security from China that are not being taken seriously
00:33 enough.
00:34 That includes issues around our critical national infrastructure as well as the kind of political
00:39 interference that we've seen being alleged in this recent case.
00:44 It's why we've called for an overall audit of our relations with China and a proper strategy
00:50 for the risks, the threats and the challenges to our national security from other states.
00:57 We have to cooperate with China on things like climate change but we also have to make
01:01 sure that our national security is protected.
01:03 It ought to be possible for the government to take a comprehensive approach.

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