UK ‘Ignoring’ Bio Threat From Beijing, Senior Tory Says

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Labour MP Fabian Hamilton both warned of the risks to the UK’s genomics data.

The image shows BGI Research and Development Center in Hong Kong. (Song Bilong/The Epoch Times).

The UK is “ignoring” the threat from China to Britain’s biosecurity, Sir Iain Duncan Smith said.

The former Conservative Party leader urged the government to protect Britons’ genomics data from Chinese scientists, who he says “could use it for targeted bioweapons.”