Director of Public Prosecutions

noun

1. DPP. (in Britain) an official who, as head of the Crown Prosecution Service, is responsible for conducting all criminal prosecutions initiated by the police

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Widely credited as the mastermind of Labour's election landslide and the political brain behind Sir Keir's quick rise since switching from Director of Public Prosecutions, McSweeney is also among the first to face criticism when the Downing Street machine is perceived to have stuttered, stumbled or outright failed.

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Director of public prosecutions Stephen Parkinson has said the case could not progress because the government's witness, deputy national security adviser Matt Collins, would not explicitly say China was an active threat to national security at the time of the alleged offences.

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The director of public prosecutions, Stephen Parkinson, had said the case could not progress because the government's deputy national security adviser, Matt Collins, was unwilling to classify China as an active threat to national security.

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After weeks of pressure, Parkinson, who is the head of the CPS and director of public prosecutions, has now written a long letter to the national security strategy committee, ahead of appearing before it on Monday.

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The director of public prosecutions has said the China spy case collapsed because a top national security official could not say the country had been classed as an "enemy" when the Conservatives were in power.

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