Iain Duncan Smith has said China’s offer to lift sanctions on him and other parliamentarians is a move to grease the wheels for the country’s London mega-embassy bid. Nine other predominantly Tory parliamentarians were sanctioned in 2021 for speaking out against the genocide in Xinjiang…
A Chinese embassy spokesman said yesterday in response to reports that some or all of those sanctions are set to be lifted that “China has always attached importance to developing relations with the UK. Currently, UK-China relations are showing a positive momentum.” Golden Keir-a…
Duncan Smith has now told Guido the move is “an offering from China” to Labour to grease the wheels for their proposed new embassy facility at Royal Mint Court. Blocked by the Tories thanks to grave warnings from domestic intelligence services…
The embassy proposals, which IDS calls “the latest in a long and ever-growing list of betrayals by Starmer,” are even opposed by the White House. Duncan Smith added lifting sanctions “won’t make a difference” to him personally – he said he will be surveilled and harassed by China anyway. No summer Beijing holiday in the books then…
Duncan Smith didn’t hold back on the broader picture of Starmer’s leadership either, telling Guido: “First Chagos, then his anti-Brexit reset, then Gibraltar, then the grooming gangs, and now the spy-ridden Chinese super embassy. First the lies, then the deceit, then the betrayal.” Punchy…
Starmer insisted his chances of leading the country are not diminishing. He told reporters during his visit to McLaren:
“No, no, no. I’m very happy to be out and about this morning, not talking about the internal politics of the Labour party, but talking about young people.”