Overview

• No 10 says national security adviser Jonathan Powell will appear privately before the Joint Committee on the National Security Strategy to address the collapsed prosecution.
• Conservative MP Alicia Kearns says material linked to the case indicates she was targeted and fears her Taiwan hotel room may have been bugged, raising concerns for dissidents she met.
• DPP Stephen Parkinson said the CPS could not proceed without ministerial material to show China met the legal threat test for 2021–23, and both Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry deny wrongdoing.
• Reports allege Powell and senior officials sought to limit how China would be described in court, a claim Downing Street rejects, while some cabinet ministers are reported to be questioning Powell’s position.
• Kearns says she will push for sanctions on the Chinese Communist Party and to block a planned London embassy site, and the Commons Speaker is exploring a private prosecution despite significant legal hurdles.