The government’s apparent reasoning for failing to support the China spy prosecutions has been branded ‘nonsense’ by an intelligence expert — as new evidence of Beijing’s espionage came to light.

Whitehall advisers have been blamed for the collapse of the case against Christopher Berry and ex-parliamentary researcher Christopher Cash for allegedly providing ‘information prejudicial to the interests of the state’.

They had denied the espionage charges, relating to a period between December 2021 and February 2023, before the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) announced last month that they had been dropped.

The Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) claimed that prosecutors were not given vital statements saying China is an ‘active threat’ to national security despite having tried for months

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