The warning that a Chinese “spy” was operating in Westminster broke with the excitement of a John le Carré novel. It is another tawdry tale of funding, of cash and of incremental influence. Christine Lee, the lawyer who runs the British-Chinese Project and has made donations to Barry Gardiner MP, among others, has been linked formally by MI5 to the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. Why would the CCP spend hundreds of thousands of pounds and years of effort on infiltrating the office of the honourable member for Brent North? His former positions as an environment minister under Tony Blair and shadow trade secretary

Source: The Times January 14, 2022 19:15 UTC