Female Chinese agent energetic in UK Parliament, MI5 warns

The UK’s secret service MI5 has warned members of Parliament {that a} feminine Chinese agent has been energetic in Parliament, it emerged within the House of Commons on Thursday.

Senior Conservative Party MP and outspoken China critic Iain Duncan Smith introduced up the problem just about a letter despatched to Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle by MI5.China has positioned sanctions on Duncan Smith for talking up in opposition to its therapy of the Uyghur minority within the nation’s restive Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region.ALSO READ: UK Parliament opinions guidelines for infants being allowed in chamber”I understand that Mr Speaker has been contacted by MI5 and is now warning members of Parliament that there has been an agent of the Chinese government active here in Parliament working with a member of Parliament, obviously to subvert the processes here,” said Smith.”I say, as a member of Parliament who has been sanctioned by the Chinese authorities, that this can be a matter of grave concern,” he said.In a letter sent to MPs by Hoyle, he reportedly said that MI5 had warned him a woman called Christine Lee has been “engaged in political interference actions on behalf of the Chinese Community Party, participating with members right here at Parliament”.ALSO READ: India slams abusive language after UK lawmakers rake up Kashmir, Gujarat riotsMI5 sent out the so-called “interference alert” warning Lee has “facilitated monetary donations to serving and aspiring parliamentarians on behalf of international nationals based mostly in Hong Kong and China… completed covertly to masks the origins of the funds”.MI5, which stands for Military Intelligence Section 5, said the Chinese lawyer has been involved with MPs and hopeful MPs as well as members of the now-disbanded All-Party Parliamentary Group, Chinese in Britain.According to ‘Sky News’, the alert says that “Lee has acted covertly in coordination with the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party (UFWD) and is judged to be concerned in political interference actions within the UK.”Hoyle instructed MPs if they’ve been approached by Lee, they need to contact the director of safety for Parliament.Opposition Labour Party MP Barry Gardiner was named as an MP who accepted donations from the Chinese lady, and he confirmed her son was working for him however has now resigned. The MPs’ register of pursuits reveals Lee has made about 500,000 kilos in donations to British parliamentarians.ALSO READ: UK-India cooperation helps repair international issues: Minister in UK Parliament debate