Conservative backbenchers have called for tougher action against Beijing as the Government is expected to blame China for cyber attacks against parliamentarians.Anticipating an expected announcement that Beijing-linked hackers were behind cyber attacks on the Electoral Commission and parliamentarians, former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith called on the Government to label China as a "threat" rather than an "epoch-defining challenge".Speaking alongside other members of the Inter-Parliamentary

Conservative backbenchers have called for tougher action against Beijing as the Government is expected to blame China for cyber attacks against parliamentarians.Anticipating an expected announcement that Beijing-linked hackers were behind cyber attacks on the Electoral Commission and parliamentarians, former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith called on the Government to label China as a "threat" rather than an "epoch-defining challenge".Speaking alongside other members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC), he told a press conference in Westminster: "We must now enter a new era of relations with China, dealing with the contemporary Chinese Communist Party as it really is, not as we would wish it to be.