Government urged to end its ‘naivety on China’ as Dowden to brief MPs on Beijing’s role in cyber-attacks – UK politics live
The deputy prime minister is expected to blame Beijing for the hack and announce new sanctions against Chinese officials In his interview on the Today programme this morning, Luke de Pulford, the executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac), also said that the UK government had been slow to blame China for cyber attacks on MPs, and on British institutions more generally. Peter Walker has the details here.Good morning. Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are both far away from Westminster this morning. Sunak is in Barrow-in-Furness, promoting a £200m investment in nuclear submarines, and Starmer is on Anglesey, promoting Labour’s plans for offshore wind. In London it looks as if the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, will be grabbing the headlines. He is making a statement to MPs about Chinese cyber-attacks on the UK and, as the Sun reports, he is expected to blame Beijing for a hack on the Electoral Commission’s network that meant details of 40 million voters were accessible. Continue reading...
The deputy prime minister is expected to blame Beijing for the hack and announce new sanctions against Chinese officials
In his interview on the Today programme this morning, Luke de Pulford, the executive director of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac), also said that the UK government had been slow to blame China for cyber attacks on MPs, and on British institutions more generally. Peter Walker has the details here.
Good morning. Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are both far away from Westminster this morning. Sunak is in Barrow-in-Furness, promoting a £200m investment in nuclear submarines, and Starmer is on Anglesey, promoting Labour’s plans for offshore wind. In London it looks as if the deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, will be grabbing the headlines. He is making a statement to MPs about Chinese cyber-attacks on the UK and, as the Sun reports, he is expected to blame Beijing for a hack on the Electoral Commission’s network that meant details of 40 million voters were accessible. Continue reading...
