SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has questioned why Sir Keir Starmer is “kowtowing” to China when it presents a national security risk.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “Well, the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has arrived in China on a trade mission, and the security affairs are such that everyone on the delegation, including businessmen, advisors and journalists, have been issued burner phones, which are things normally used by criminals and drug dealers – temporary SIM cards and throwaway laptops, I didn’t know you could get throwaway laptops.
“Attendees have been told to assume they’re being watched, photographed and possibly even bugged simply by plugging a device into a wall socket.
“The warning comes after previous British visits where Chinese officials were caught taking photographs inside a UK government aircraft, and amid claims China has been spying on British officials for years.
“So why is the Prime Minister kowtowing to a regime that poses a national security risk that is too severe to use his own telephone?
“If you can’t trust a country not to spy on you when you’re a visitor and you have to take criminal telephones effectively, why on earth are you going?
“Theresa May, the last Prime Minister to go, was told to get undressed in the dark because they might be taking pictures of her.
“What sort of a government is that?”
