Keir Starmer releases documents submitted by deputy national security adviser to Crown Prosecution Service

The government's national security adviser is facing pressure over whether he played a role in the trial's collapse.

Both the Tories and Liberal Democrats are calling on government to publish evidence it submitted in the now-collapsed case.

Crown Prosecution Service denies it blocked publication of material and says decision rests with the government

Sir Keir Starmer made his announcement in a statement to the Commons before tetchy exchanges with Kemi Badenoch on the China spy trial collapse scandal

Keir Starmer releases documents submitted by deputy national security adviser to Crown Prosecution Service

Keir Starmer ordered the release of witness statements provided for the trial of two men who allegedly spied for China

Deputy national security adviser concluded China was "highly capable and conduct large-scale espionage operations against the UK".

Questions remain over trial collapse even as publication of key evidence scuppers Tory’s main line of attack

Stephen Kinnock says government is ‘deeply disappointed’ CPS abandoned prosecution