Starmer’s Chagos Negotiator Jonathan Powell Visited China and Spoke at ‘Front Organisation’ Conference While Engaged on Deal
Keir Starmer’s Chagos negotiator and National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell visited China and spoke at a Beijing ‘front organisation’ conference while engaged on the ‘surrender’ deal with China-ally Mauritius, it has emerged. Guido Fawkes has the scoop.
It’s Day Two of Guido’s Chagos Files, a trove of hundreds of Foreign Office emails which expose the inner workings of the negotiations over the now torpedoed Chagos deal. It does not make good reading for Starmer or his National Security Adviser Jonathan Powell…
As Guido revealed yesterday, Jonathan Powell was engaged on the Chagos issue by Foreign Office officials at least a month before his formal appointment as the PM’s envoy for BIOT sovereignty negotiations. During this period he was given extensive Government information via email to his private email address, and took meetings with officials prior to his involvement being announced.
Now it has emerged that Powell visited China to attend a conference at ‘front organisation’ the Grandview Institution while working on the Chagos file. Powell was in Beijing from September 20th-22nd 2024, six weeks after his engagement on the Chagos issue began. As The Chagos Files reveal, Powell was working with FCDO officials from at least August 6th of that year. Powell visited China in his private capacity as the head of consultancy Inter Mediate while simultaneously working as the government’s Chagos envoy. …
Why was Powell meeting with a Chinese Government front organisation while simultaneously negotiating the sovereignty of Chagos – a matter of direct interest to the Chinese Government?
Worth reading in full.
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Misconduct in public office?
How about treason?
Misconduct out of public office as he hadn’t yet been appointed.
The idea is becoming attractive of Parliamentary scrutiny of senior (high paid) SPADs etc and Quangoists I do t say Parliament should have a veto but exposing these people to scrutiny might improve public confidence and might weed out some dross.
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“Negotiator”
You negotiate with people who have leverage over you.
It does seem like the only intelligent people in starmer’s govt are the ones put there by Chinese and Russian intelligence.
The smart people in Russia and China know they don’t need smart people in Starmer’s government.
After all, Starmer is there already working hard at being an idiot IMHO.
He is Reform UK’s No 1 asset [along with Lammy, Reeves and a cast of thousands in the Labour Party].
And Farage doesn’t have to pay any of them a cent.
It is awesome.
Labour is Reform UK’s secret weapon and their election-winning campaign machine.
So now we know what the Andrew hysteria is distracting us from, A high profile friend of Starmers whose relationship with China seems to be questionable
Why hasn’t Mandy been arrested or charged? He wasn’t a dimwit who gave away information which could be used by a crook. He is said to have received payment to his boyfriend. Randy Andy had Royal protection officers so why didn’t they advise him that Jeffrey was dodgy?
Andy will never be convicted of misfeasance in public office.
The prosecution has to prove he acted knowingly.
How can that be successful for a guy who is too thick IMHO to even spell misfeasance let alone know what he is doing.
He probably is having to learn how to spread marmalade on his toast at breakfast because it was all done for him before now.
Grifting hither, grifting thither…. It’s off to work we go.
Nice bit of sleuthing, Guido!
Because he wants to secure his place on the ark?!
Why? Could it be because he, Two-Tier, Sands, and Hermer are completely corrupt? Just asking …..