David Lammy and Yvette Cooper have written to the Planning Inspectorate for England to support China’s planning application to build a mega-embassy on the Royal Mint Court site, despite security concerns from Britain’s intelligence services that it could grant China access to vital communication cables. The letter states that the Metropolitan Police have suddenly decided to “withdraw their objection” to Beijing’s proposal. Their only requests? China to change a “small element of the design,” accompanied by a vague promise of “occasional controlled public access”…
When Beijing relaunched its application last summer, Tower Hamlets rejected it due to security concerns and the potential disruption to local residents. Starmer however reassured Communist dictator Xi last month that Labour had ‘called in’ the application:
“You raised the Chinese embassy building in London when we spoke on the telephone, and we have since taken action by calling in that application. Now we have to follow the legal process and timeline.”
It’s a highly unusual move to override security concerns to approve what will be the biggest Chinese embassy in Europe, covering over 20,000 square metres—dwarfing the current embassy by a factor of 24. Meanwhile, Luke de Pulford of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China has slammed Starmer for “nakedly admitting that the Government called in the Chinese mega-embassy application under pressure from Xi Jinping.” A reminder that it was only last month that another Chinese spy—’H6’—was banned from the UK after mixing with UK politicians and members of the royal family for some time. Labour walking straight into the dragon’s mouth…
Asked about warnings of a civil war in an interview with The House, Reform MP Danny Kruger said:
“Yeah. The only chance of unity for our country is Reform. If we don’t win, or if we win and then make a mess of it, I do fear for our country.”