Controversial North Sea turbine deal sparks concerns as ministers accused of ‘crawling on their stomachs to China’

MINISTERS were accused of “crawling connected their stomachs to China” implicit a arguable North Sea turbine woody with Beijing.

The Sun revealed connected Tuesday that the Treasury had “brushed off” spying and energy information concerns implicit allowing Chinese steadfast Mingyang Smart Energy to supply windmills for a North Sea filed owed to beryllium approved successful weeks.

The MoD and Energy section raised large nationalist information concerns with the task but are said to person been overruled by the Treasury.

Last nighttime No10 insisted wind farms are taxable to the “highest levels of nationalist security”

Sir Keir Starmer’s spokesperson said: “We volition ever enactment successful the nationalist involvement to support our nationalist security.

He added: “And erstwhile it comes to China, we’ve been wide that we’ll cooperate wherever we can, vie wherever we request to, and situation wherever we must.”

But amid accusations the Treasury had “brushed off” information concerns for investment, determination was a large backlash.

Shadow Cabinet Office curate Alex Burghart described the determination as: "More madness from Rachel Reeves and co-jeopardising nationalist information for a clump of windmills.”

He added: "When specified superior concerns are being raised, the authorities has to explicate however connected Earth this was approved. Why is the Chancellor risking nationalist security?”

Former Tory person Iain Duncan Smith branded it "yet different anemic and hopeless effort to crawl connected their stomachs to China.”

He added: “The Labour government is going to o.k. a North Sea upwind workplace powered by Chinese turbines, handing implicit power of a captious assets to a brutal and threatening regime. How China is laughing astatine us.

“This determination flies successful the look of warnings from the Energy dept that they could beryllium turned disconnected and from MoD implicit eves-dropping and spying.

“We person go the anemic underbelly of the Western confederation and astatine this complaint of task Kow Tow, nary longer trusted by our allies similar the USA.”