Tory aide Chris Cash denies spying for China

A Tory parliamentary aide and a teacher have denied passing secrets to China. Chris Cash, 29, and Christopher Berry, 32, are charged with giving ‘articles, notes, documents or information’ to a foreign state under the Official Secrets Act 1911. Cash is a former director of an influential China policy group. The pair appeared at the Old Bailey speaking only to confirm their names and deny their charges. Both are charged with ‘passing secret information to a foreign state by obtaining,…