Government urged to end its ‘naivety on China’ as Dowden to brief MPs on Beijing’s role in cyber-attacks – UK politics live

The deputy prime minister is expected to blame Beijing for the hack and announce new sanctions against Chinese officials

Jo Stevens, the shadow Welsh secretary, was doing the media round for Labour this morning. Asked about China and cyber-attacks against the UK, she said Labour wanted a new strategy. She told Sky News:

We need a new strategy, which we have long been calling for, to tackle state threats with closer working between the Home Office and the Foreign Office to coordinate the UK’s strategic response to this growing threat both to domestic security and our electoral freedoms.