Senior Tories say ministers not holding China to account after Beijing targeted elections watchdog and politicians
after the security services confirmed Beijing-backed hackers were responsible for a cyber-attack targeting the UK elections watchdog and a surveillance operation on British politicians.
The disclosure marks a new low point in Beijing-London relations. Conservative MPs urged the government to take tougher action against Beijing and to add top Chinese officials to a register of hostile state actors. Duncan Smith said he and colleagues had been “subjected to harassment, impersonation and attempted hacking from China for some time” but MPs would not be “bullied into silence by Beijing”.
The government was also criticised for being too slow to respond to the cyber-attacks, which took place between 2021 and 2022. The former prime minister, who was closely associated with the “golden era” of UK-China relations, has faced questions over his own role in a Beijing-backed development scheme in Sri Lanka. He faced criticism from Labour on Monday for meeting only Tory MPs.
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