The UK Government needs to be more brutal with China’s “disgusting” regime, Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said.
The former leader of the Conservative party said the fact the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) is trying to “persuade and infiltrate and subvert people within our political system” is “nothing new at all” and insisted “too many governments seem too cautious about calling it out”.
Appearing on Sky News’ Trevor Phillips On Sunday programme, Sir Iain was asked about the urgent alert issued by MI5 last week which said Christine Lee – a prominent London-based solicitor – had been engaged in “political interference activities” on behalf of China’s ruling communist regime.
He said: “We seem to want to kow-tow to them too often and that’s dangerous and you have seen the results of that and this is just the tip of the iceberg, I can promise you.”
Sir Iain noted “we are not dealing with a European regime or an American regime which is democratic and accountable” but this is a “brutal, disgusting regime”, adding: “What they’re after is making sure there can be no criticism of them so they can break every rule that they wish.”
The senior Tory MP added that whether or not we believe Covid-19 came from a laboratory, the communist regime of China “refused to let the world know of the scale of the problem they had until very late on”.
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