Calls for further security measures including vetting of staffers after UK parliamentary aide arrested on suspicion of spying for China
, is known to have held a parliamentary pass, allowing him unescorted access to large parts of the Westminster estate.
Paterson said the allegations were “a major wake-up call for Australia and the United Kingdom, not that we should have needed it”. Paterson is a co-chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, an international group of legislators that calls for democracies to stand together in the face of “challenges” posed by the CCP.
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