One email reassured TikTok that such interventions were "envisaged as being rare". It said the government "recognises the vital contribution of FDI [foreign direct investment] to the UK."
A message to TikTok reassures them about government plans to boost its capacity to probe foreign investment that raises national security concernsThe reply from TikTok's Elizabeth Kanter is partially redacted. Subsequent emails from TikTok in the days after the April meeting ask DfIT for a separate phone call with Theo Bertram, TikTok's director of policy for Europe and a former aide to prime ministers Tony Blair and Gordon Brown.
As the emails continued, more senior figures in government joined the correspondence list. Trade Secretary Liz Truss and Sir Edward Lister, then Boris Johnson's chief strategic adviser, were eventually being copied in.
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