He added: "Legally the UK has the right to not extradite for political crimes. Espionage is the classic case of political crimes. It is at the discretion of the UK government as to whether to apply to that exception."
He also said that if was extradited to the US, there was a "high chance" of him being killed "Jack Ruby-style" - a reference to the man who killed Lee Harvey Oswald before he could stand trial for the murder of President John F Kennedy.
Jack Ruby died of lung cancer in 1967 three years into his prison sentence for the assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald in 1963.
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