MPs angry they were kept in dark about China hack two years ago

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00:00 We had the scandal about the hacking of MPs email accounts back in March.

00:06 We subsequently learned that the FBI had informed our government about this instance two years ago,

00:15 as well as other foreign governments who had legislators who were also affected.

00:19 Why has it taken two years for us to be told about a serious security breach?

00:27 And will he now, with his colleagues in cabinet, make sure that China is absolutely treated as

00:34 and labelled as a threat and not just an epoch-defining systemic challenge,

00:39 and everything is done urgently to put China in the enhanced tier of the foreign

00:44 influence registration scheme? I'm sorry, but I'm not convinced by the

00:48 government's attitude on this. When the Deputy Prime Minister came to see us a few weeks ago,

00:52 he didn't say anything new. He announced things about events that had happened two years ago,

00:57 but the Member himself knows of attempts by the Chinese government to undermine the work

01:01 of the Foreign Affairs Committee of this House. Why are we only ever told about things that

01:07 happened years ago? If we're surely to take these issues seriously, we have to have an

01:13 up-to-date and present account of the activities of the Chinese state.

01:18 Maybe.

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