Senior Tory calls for building where GCHQ based to have Chinese cameras removed


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Sir Iain Duncan Smith said the Hikvision cameras outside Heron House in Manchester should be removed (Jonathan Brady/PA) — © Jonathan Brady A senior Conservative MP and China hawk has said it is “absurdity” that a building the Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) operates out of has Chinese surveillance cameras attached to it. Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said CCTV made by Beijing-based firm Hikvision should be removed from a property that is home to the security agency’s North West secure site. It comes after Channel 4 News reported that it had found at least nine cameras made by...