Mile to protect the iconic crooked house pub following its demolition last month. Before that , here demolition last month. Before that, here are your news headunes that, here are your News Headlines with ray addison. Headlines with ray addison. Thank you both. Good afternoon. 12 01. Our top stories , sir keir starmer is stories, sir keir starmer is calling on the Prime Minister to reveal what he knew and when about westminster s alleged chinese spy. It comes after the Parliamentary Research chair said hes completely innocent and has spent his entire career highlighting threats presented by the Chinese Communist party. By the Chinese Communist party. The man who has not been officially named was arrested in march. The pm has been facing calls to designate china as a National Security threat. Robert courts is a member of the defence select committee. He defence select committee. He says the threat of espionage is always present. Always present. Theres always a concern, of course, whenever you hear a story like this, i mean you have to be aware that at any time espionage is going on, thats a point of public life. I mean, whatever position you occupy, people will always be trying to find out secrets to find out secrets and to understand things. It is clearly very shocking one that is very shocking to see one that is at heart out of british at the heart out of british pubuc at the heart out of British Public life and right at the heart of our democracy. But we just need to be aware of these things and that theyre there. 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Its understood that the majority relate to lone individuals, but there are also more organised plots and threats from state actors as it comes 22 years after the 9 11 terror attack in which more than 2750 people were killed. Chris phillips is former killed. Chris phillips is former head of the National CounterTerrorism Security office. He told us the threat of terror is still present, but large attacks are unlikely. We, the uk , has faced we, the uk, has faced terrorism in one form or another for 100 years and thats not likely to go away. The sad fact is that m15 have so many things on their plate. Not only have theyve got the threat of al qaeda and isis and individuals within that , you individuals within that, you know, hundreds, thousands actually of people in the country that are of concern. But also theyve got Northern Ireland also. Theyve got youve been talking about the chinese spies. That falls to them as well. All these things are a real threat society. 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Now lets get back to mark and. Now lets get back to mark and. Pip rey. Thank you. And welcome back to the live desk. Now lawyers to the live desk. Now lawyers for the Parliamentary Researcher were arrested on suspicion of spying for china. Insist he is completely innocent. Hes added that hes spent his career highlighting what he called the challenges and threats presented by the Chinese Communist party. By the Chinese Communist party. Following news of the arrests, the Prime Minister confronted Chinese Premier Li Qiang yesterday at the g20 summit in india over unacceptable interference in democracy. The Commons Speaker , democracy. The Commons Speaker, sir Lindsay Hoyle, is set to make a statement this afternoon which will bring you at around 230. Well , sir 230. Well, sir keir starmer, labour leader, has just been asked about the arrests and whether china is a threat to National Security. This was his response. China is a strategic challenge , thats for sure. And challenge, thats for sure. And what we need is a policy that is clear and is settled. Now, we clear and is settled. Now, we havent had that for the last ten years. Weve had division and incapacity urgency from this government. But i think this morning theres a very big question now for the Prime Minister, which is, was this raised when these arrests took place back in march or has it only been raised now that its come into the Public Domain . I think thats the central question that needs to be answered Prime Minister answered by the Prime Minister today. You learn of today. When did you learn of this arrest . Today. When did you learn of this arrest . We today. When did you learn of this arrest . We first knew of this arrest . We first knew of this arrest . We first knew of this very recently , and thats this very recently, and thats why the very big question, therefore, is when did the Prime Minister know and when . What did he raise . At what point was it he raise . At what point was it way back when these arrests took place or was it more recently . I think thats a vital question. But we do need to see greater consistency here as well , consistency here as well, because china is undoubtedly a strategic challenge, but a threat , a strategic strategic challenge, but a threat, a strategic challenge is, i think , the right way to is, i think, the right way to describe what were confronted with here. But that does require that consistency of approach, and thats whats been lacking. And thats whats been lacking. But today, in light of whats developed, i think the big question for the Prime Minister is when was this raised . And lets get the latest with our Political Editor , our Political Editor, Christopher Hope and interesting there that sir keir said that china represented a strategic challenge , not a threat like the challenge, not a threat like the Prime Minister. Very, very careful about the language theyre using. Yeah. What were theyre using. Yeah. What were seeing here, pippa, is a Movement Towards trying to deal with china by talking to them. Again, thats ended under bofis again, thats ended under Boris Johnson and liz truss as Prime Minister, of course. And the dial is swinging around from under David Cameron when there was a massive move to get closer to the chinese that ended really under johnson to the chinese that ended really underjohnson and truss. Now the pm rishi sunak is going back towards the middle trying to talk the chinese senior talk more to the chinese senior people in number 10 tell me that if you look at all other g7 countries, were the only one who has no real connection at all to them. So his view is the view from from the top level view from the from the top level of the government is we should be talking much more to china, not them completely. Be talking much more to china, not thats them completely. Be talking much more to china, not thats what m completely. Be talking much more to china, not thats what hes mpletely. Be talking much more to china, not thats what hes tryingzly. Be talking much more to china, not thats what hes trying to and thats what hes trying to do. Thats why james do. And thats why James Cleverly there to cleverly went out there to beijing weeks ago. Of beijing a few weeks ago. Of course, that happened after the arrest of these alleged arrest of over these alleged spies. All spies. Of course, who deny all wrongdoing. Question is wrongdoing. So the question is for will be asked in the for the pm will be asked in the house when he gives a house today when he gives a speech on the g20 by keir starmer, imagine. What did he starmer, i imagine. What did he know . Know it and know . When did you know it and why we still talking to china . And a lot of very angry mps too, with sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaken too, with sir Lindsay Hoyle, the speaker, to make statement at speaker, to make a statement at 230. One parliamentary 230. Weve got one Parliamentary Research. Know one of two research. We know of one of two men in march under men arrested in march under the official those official secrets act. Those lawyers completely lawyers say hes completely innocent. Services innocent. Intelligence services concerned about maybe others who may be within the halls of westminster or in government. So this clearly is of growing concern across the party divide i thats lam thats right, mark. The big question to be asked answer today or go towards answering is how many more people are the Security Services concerned aboutin Security Services concerned about in parliament . Well hear about in parliament . Well hear a from Lindsay Hoyle a statement from Lindsay Hoyle at 2. 30. I imagine hell be saying, be careful, dont name people in parliament because of course there are live Police Investigations why investigations and thats why lots are being careful lots of media are being careful about anybody involved about naming anybody involved with is concern, with this. But it is a concern, isnt it, that you can have people who are concerned in parliament around parliament and moving around parliament and moving around parliament of parliament amongst mps, of course, contact course, who have contact with senior thats senior ministers. And thats the concern mean, so long as concern. I mean, so long as spying happens all over the place by all countries, but when it starts to infiltrate the highest levels of parliament that you see behind me , that the that you see behind me, that the government very concerned. Government is very concerned. Just give us a little chris, just give us a little bit of insight. Bit more of an insight. Obviously, youre at parliament all time, you can be a all the time, but you can be a parliamentary pass holder and not have security clearance. Is not have security clearance. Is that correct . That correct . Well , that depends. Well, that depends. Well, that depends. I mean, when you apply for these passes, they tend to last for 2 or 3 years and you have to give details of your family, your your where you were born, all that kind of thing. And then they then do all these they then they do all these checks and they back checks and they come back or they back. I mean, they dont come back. I mean, yes, able to move around yes, youre able to move around parliament freely once you have that. And they dont really ask you know foreign you if you know any foreign powers. Certainly powers. I mean, ive certainly never been asked that. I think there different degrees of there are different degrees of vetting, even in parliament. But which, which happens. But which, which, which happens. But they are several thousand. They there are several thousand. Its like a small village, small town, really. Several thousand people access to the houses people have access to the houses of parliament and of course there will be people around there will be people around there the services are there who who the services are concerned it. Concerned about it. And the other aspect, of course, the mps course, is that, again, the mps are pointing out that the official secrets act used we believe, in two of these cases, more than 100 years old, and now we have the National Security act, new security laws. So clearly they are trying to assess how to cope with any people that come up on the radar i yeah, theyve been looking for these powers for quite a while. The official secrets act was seen to be largely outdated and theyre certainly under the these new measures, there might be a chance to try and deal with this kind of infiltration. Its happened with other other happened before with other other mps happened before with other other mp5 i happened before with other other mps i think its coming once mps and i think its coming once more front and centre. Its more into front and centre. Its a bad time for rishi sunak because he is trying to get closer to the chinese to talk to them more. And this is a noises off problem he can do without. I mean, senior figures mean, i think senior figures close pm would would make close to the pm would would make clear that although no Ian Duncan Smith and so called duncan smith and other so called china tory party china hawks in the tory party are on the media, they are are noisy on the media, they are are noisy on the media, they are a small minority. Of the a very small minority. Of the 365 tory mps and thats what i think hell be stressing today in house of commons. It is a fine balance, is it not, chris, with the language that they are using . Because of course the trade deals that we do with china, i mean, some people are saying that is whats being prioritised over National Security. Security. Its a balance. So its a nuance which we havent really had before for a few years under the previous tory Prime Ministers. This rishi sunak is quite keen to have this idea of trying to talk to china trade with them where we can, but also be very wary of what theyre up to. Its a very thin line to go down. Of course, these kind of stories, when they break now in in over the weekend with in delhi over the weekend with rishi sunak , this news broke in rishi sunak, this news broke in the sunday times. He then had a meeting there with his china chinese premier and raised serious concerns about it because it gets in way of because it gets in the way of trying have any kind of trying to have any kind of rapprochement at all with beijing. Thats its not beijing. And thats why its not great, timing. The next great, great timing. 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