Cooper: Starmer faces questions over suppressed China spy case, echoing Trudeau’s Beijing scandals

Sam Cooper: The geopolitical echoes of this case resonate far beyond Westminster. A similar pattern has unfolded in Canada, where Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government — also perceived as favouring trade and engagement with Beijing — was accused of turning a blind eye to intelligence warnings that China’s Ministry of State Security was gathering information on Conservative MPs critical of Beijing, including Michael Chong, who incurred China’s wrath by sponsoring a motion recognising the CCP’s repression of Uyghurs as genocide…