A collapse in the China spying case was an issue not of "bureaucracy" but instead "leadership", Tom Tugendhat has warned.The former security minister suggested that if "the bureaucrats are in charge of everything", then the UK "isn't a democracy any more".He questioned why the Government did not do "everything" in its power to secure the prosecution of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry, who both deny wrongdoing.

A collapse in the China spying case was an issue not of "bureaucracy" but instead "leadership", Tom Tugendhat has warned.The former security minister suggested that if "the bureaucrats are in charge of everything", then the UK "isn't a democracy any more".He questioned why the Government did not do "everything" in its power to secure the prosecution of Christopher Cash and Christopher Berry, who both deny wrongdoing.