Did China use car parts to track the prime minister?

Former Tory party leader makes claim that the Chinese government hid tracking devices in official cars

Did China use car parts to track the prime minister?
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The former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has claimed that the Chinese government tracked the movements of Rishi Sunak using tracking devices hidden in car parts.

Speaking to LBC’s Nick Ferrari, Sir Iain said: “Those devices that they’ve been putting into Downing Street cars, although they won’t admit it, tracking where the prime minster was going, knowing who he was seeing; this is exactly what they can do with batteries and with their cars”.

Sir Iain was referring to reports earlier this year, when a SIM card capable of transmitting location data was found during a security sweep in a UK government car.

At the time, the Conservative MP for Chingford and Woodford Green, said: “I don’t know how much more the UK needs to know about the threat China poses to us all. Surely it is time to change the integrated review and refer to China as a systemic threat.”

Chinese officials denied the claims, calling them “sheer rumour”, but Sir Iain has reiterated his concerns, telling LBC: “It was never absolutely confirmed, of course they wouldn’t do for security reasons, but I’m pretty reliably told that they had to strip out the cars to find the devices based in the little SIMs, and they were capable and were tracking the cars and the car journeys.

”They have capability to be able to throw the switch, as it were, on batteries etc, as and when they wish.”

Earlier in the conversation, the former foreign secretary warned of the impact of China’s car trade on the UK economy.

He said: “The reality for all of us is if we go down this road at the rate we’re going right now, we will not only not have a car industry – lots of people will not have jobs in that industry – but what we’ll become is an offshoot of the Chinese who will then use us to be able to break the market.”

Source: LBC

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