Keir Starmer was accused of ‘kowtowing’ to China as he is poised to approve its ‘mega’ embassy.

It is understood that the Prime Minister will announce a decision next month despite warnings over national security.

It comes in the same week as MI5 cautioned MPs about a security threat from Chinese spies aiming to penetrate Parliament. 

Reports that Sir Keir Starmer will approve the plan come ahead of his expected visit to China in January next year.

It also comes in the wake of the collapse of a spy trial in which two men were accused of passing information to Beijing. They deny any wrongdoing.

A Whitehall source said the embassy’s approval was likely to be a ‘formality’. But a No 10 source said a decision has not been made.

MPs exploded in anger at the news, with former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith warning. ‘The Government is in a hopeless state of kowtowing to China. We will take it to the courts because they have broken all the rules.

‘Everything China wants, China gets. They spy on us, bully us, cajole us and yet Labour is there on deep bended knee asking for more. It’s a shameful moment for a British government.

‘China represents a threat that is real, constant and growing, and this is a strategic disaster.’ Shadow Foreign Secretary Priti Patel warned that rubber-stamping the embassy would put the UK at risk, adding: ‘Keir Starmer really hates Britain. He’s off to Beijing… after our intelligence services issued alerts about Chinese espionage following the massive spy case.’

China warned of ‘consequences’ if the embassy near the Tower of London is not given planning permission. The site at Royal Mint Court sits above a web of fibre-optic cables used to bring information into the City of London.

A decision on the embassy, which critics say will be used as a base for espionage, has been delayed repeatedly. But it is now set to be approved after MI5 and MI6 reportedly gave the plan the go-ahead, The Times reported.

Both the Home Office and Foreign Office are said not to be planning to raise objections provided appropriate ‘mitigations’ are in place to protect national security’.

It comes ahead of the PM’s expected visit to China next year to facilitate economic relations with one of Britain’s biggest trading partners.

Questioned about the visit and the embassy decision, Sir Keir, who is at the G20 summit in South Africa, said he would ‘robustly’ protect national interests.

Keir Starmer needs to resign, and we need a General Election now because this man never does anything in the interest of the UK, but this man doesn’t care because he is rich and doesn’t need the money. He must know the damage he’s doing to this country, and he must know how disliked he is right now. So, he’s either destroying the country through mere incompetence or through malevolence.

It does actually make you wonder who Keir Starmer is working for because he and Rachel Reeves seem determined to destroy the UK with their awful decisions that they’ve made so far, which seem to be more than just bad luck.

Let’s face it, Starmer can’t seem to say no to his backbenchers or the boat people, so there’s no way he will say no to China.