Starmer accused of lying after Chinese embassy 'spying' revelations
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🗓️ 13 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
Another Telegraph scoop: our journalist Gareth Corfield has exposed unredacted plans for the Chinese “super-embassy” that reveal a secret room within a metre of extremely sensitive data cables.
Camilla and Tim speak to Conservative MP and China hawk Iain Duncan Smith, who accuses the Government of “lying from start to finish” about the embassy.
Elsewhere, Camilla and Tim react to the news that the Government could ban X, after its AI tool ‘Grok’ began creating sexual “deepfakes”. Camilla reveals her experience having been sexualised by it, and they consider the consequences of going to war with Elon Musk.
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| 0:00.0 | The Telegraph |
| 0:07.0 | Another Telegraph scoop. |
| 0:11.0 | We reveal the truth about the Chinese Super Embassy, |
| 0:15.0 | which will contain 208 secret rooms, one of them just one metre away from vital British cables. |
| 0:22.6 | We speak to Sir Ian Duncan Smith, China Hawke, sanctioned by the communist regime, |
| 0:28.0 | who says the Prime Minister Kirstama has lied and lied and lied to the public about this proposal. |
| 0:35.1 | Also, X is accused of peddling child pornography, |
| 0:39.0 | but is the Labour government using this |
| 0:40.7 | as an excuse to shut down online criticism? |
| 0:44.2 | Welcome to The Daily Tea with me, Camilla Tomini, |
| 0:47.0 | and me, Tim Stanley. |
| 1:06.5 | Thank you. One of our Telegraph colleagues has got hold of the unredacted plans for China's super embassy in London. Whoop, whooop. Scoop alert. |
| 1:07.9 | Which reveals a hidden chamber that would sit right next to where some of Britain's most sensitive communication cables run. |
| 1:18.8 | That room would sit within a network of 208 secret underground rooms, |
| 1:26.5 | which could then be used to tap into financial data and email and messaging |
| 1:31.3 | traffic for millions of internet users. |
| 1:34.3 | Now, most of the basement level of the super embassy in the plans was redacted so that people |
| 1:40.3 | couldn't see it, supposedly for security reasons. |
| 1:45.2 | And despite all of this fishy stuff going on, Kirstama is still expected to approve these plans |
| 1:50.7 | ahead of a visit to China later this month to meet President Xi Jinping. |
| 1:54.8 | Well, we're joined by Gareth Caulfield, the Telegraph journalist who got hold of these unredacted plans. |
| 2:00.3 | And Gareth, you and the video producer Louis Brady |
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