Rishi Sunak challenges premier Li after ‘spying for China’ arrests
by Kiran Stacey in Delhi from World news | The Guardian on (#6EM7T)
PM expresses concerns over Chinese interference in UK parliament after two men arrested under Official Secrets Act
Rishi Sunak has challenged the Chinese premier, Li Qiang, over Chinese interference in the UK parliament, after two men were arrested amid allegations that a parliamentary researcher had spied for Beijing.
The prime minister met Li on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Delhi in an unplanned meeting hours after the Sunday Times revealed the researcher, who is understood to have had links to senior Conservative MPs, had been arrested along with another man.
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