Back to the collapsed China spy case. Attorney General Lord Hermer is this morning giving evidence to the joint committee on the national security strategy about the matter. He has been quizzed on the context of the case, how it could have been handled differently and the legislation involved. But while Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour government has come under scrutiny about its involvement, now Lord Hermer has pointed the finger at the Tories and, er, Kemi Badenoch.

Hermer told the committee that the former Conservative government was not ambivalent about whether China was an enemy or not. The problem, he said, was that ‘the government’s position was that it was not.’ He hit out at comments made by Badenoch, who was the former business secretary, and James Cleverly, ex-foreign secretary – poin

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