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Senior Tories say ministers not holding China to account after Beijing targeted elections watchdog and politicians
Tory MPs have urged ministers to take a tougher approach towards China 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 Chinese ambassador will be summoned to explain his country’s actions, which resulted in Beijing allegedly accessing the personal details of about 40 million voters, held by the Electoral Commission.

With the Electoral Commission the latest target on a list that includes the economy and supply chains, experts warn of data-gathering ‘on an industrial scale’
In March last year an integrated review of the UK’s defence and foreign policy said it would protect the country’s “democratic freedoms” from Chinese state attacks.
A few months later the Electoral Commission confirmed why democratic institutions and processes were on the threat list as it revealed that a cyber-attack – by a then unidentified assailant – had accessed the data of 40 million voters.

Deputy PM, who didn’t really sign up for this, seemed reluctant to declare war on a superpower
The deputy prime minister’s statement on cybersecurity and China-backed attempts to undermine UK democracy had been briefed far enough in advance that MPs had had time to sharpen their insults. Iain Duncan Smith said Oliver Dowden’s announcement was like watching an elephant giving birth to a mouse. The SNP member Stuart C McDonald accused Dowden of taking a wooden spoon to a gunfight. Labour’s Chris Bryant called him “wilfully blind, and therefore dangerous”.
The inattentive observer might come away from the statement unclear on who posed the greater threat to our national security, Oliver Dowden or the Chinese.

The British government believes China has overseen two separate hacking campaigns, including one that yielded information from 40 million voters.

Deputy PM says international partners, including the US, will also be making statements today about similar Chinese cyber-attacks. This live blog is closed
Andrew Bowie, the energy minister, said the government should have revived investment in nuclear energy “years ago” in an interview this morning.
While doing an interview round on behalf of the government, Bowie told Times Radio that the government is . But it should have happened sooner, he said.
I make no bones about it. We should have done this years ago. We are running to catch up, but we have just this year delivered . We’ve announced our intention to build a third gigawatt project. We’re investing £350m in new nuclear power to ease Vladimir Putin out of the nuclear fuels market. We are absolutely committed to delivering small modular reactors through our competition, which will conclude this year.
But of course, this should have been done years ago, which is why we’re having to take the action in the way that we are right now.
We’ve been very clear that the situation now is that China is behaving in an increasingly assertive way abroad, authoritarian at home and it represents an epoch-defining challenge, and also the greatest state-based threat to our economic security.
So, it’s right that we take measures to protect ourselves, which is what we are doing.
When it comes to cyber, we have the National Cyber Security Centre, which is world leading.
Indeed, when I’m out and about across the world, other leaders want to learn and talk to us because they believe that our capabilities in this country are very strong.

Exclusive: Warning came at party’s first public meeting with Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour leader
Labour has warned China that it will respond to any interference in UK democracy after the government announced fresh sanctions against hackers linked to Beijing.
The warning came at the party’s first public meeting with the Chinese government since Keir Starmer became Labour leader.

Oliver Dowden, the deputy prime minister, has said Chinese state-affiliated actors have been involved in two cyber-attacks on the UK, including the hacking of the , and attacks aimed at parliamentarians. Dowden said the Foreign Office would summon China’s ambassador to account for its actions

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Former Tory leader says China should be labelled a threat to UK security after alleged cyber-attack
Iain Duncan Smith has said he was impersonated by a pro-China “wolf warrior” and has called for the country to be labelled a threat to UK security.
The former Tory leader said on Monday that the “wolf warrior”, a term used for combative proponents of the Chinese government, had impersonated him and sent emails to politicians around the world suggesting he had changed his views about Beijing.

Rishi Sunak has restated the government’s view that China represents an 'epoch-defining challenge', and said the UK has 'very strong' abilities to . On a visit to Barrow-in-Furness, the prime minister said: 'When it comes to cyber, we have the National Cyber Security Centre, which is world leading. Indeed, when I’m out and about across the world, other leaders want to learn and talk to us because they believe that our capabilities in this country are very strong'