Ministers should review the security implications of Chinese investment in all UK critical national infrastructure and supply chains in the wake of the British Steel saga, senior parliamentarians have urged.
Dame Emily Thornberry, Labour chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee, said UK intelligence agencies should examine Chinese investment in Britain’s nuclear, telecoms and transport sectors, after concerns about the conduct of British Steel’s Chinese owner Jingye.
She told the Financial Times: “We should get advice on any Chinese investment. We should look at it all through a security lens . . . We ought to have the principle that it’s ‘security first’.”