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A former government terrorism tsar is advising the UK wing of a blacklisted company that works on the Chinese nuclear weapons programme, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.

Lord Carlile of Berriew is a paid adviser to Bikal Tech, the British partner of a Chinese supercomputer company that is banned from the US because its surveillance technology has been used by Beijing against the persecuted Uyghur Muslims in Xinjiang.

Last night the peer said he had been unaware that the Chinese firm was subject to sanctions until informed by The Mail on Sunday and said he would 'review' the relationship in light of this information and would end it if the facts are confirmed.

Lord Carlile, the UK's Independent Reviewer of Terrorism Legislation from 2001 to 2011, co-founded intelligence consultancy SC Strategy with Sir John Scarlett, the former head of MI6.