China says UK's parliamentary spying allegation is 'pure fabrication'
A Tory parliamentary researcher has been arrested on suspicion of spying for China. Chris Cash, 28, was the director of an influential policy group on Beijing co-founded by the security minister. Cash was closely linked with Tom Tugendhat and was employed as a researcher by Alicia Kearns, chairwoman of the Commons foreign affairs committee. Cash, who was arrested in March, has said he is “completely innocent” in a statement released by his lawyers. He and a second man in his thirties who was arrested at the same time are on police bail until next month. China has labelled the arrest a "political farce” and “malicious slander”. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/ Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=timesonlinevideo Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/timesandsundaytimes/ Find us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thetimes/ #china #xijinping #ukpolitics #spy
