UK to Legislate Against Foreign Interference After Chinese Spy Found Operating in Parliament

Home Secretary Priti Patel speaking in the House of Commons, London, on March 15, 2021. House of Commons/PA

The British government will introduce new legislation to counter foreign interference, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has said after a Chinese communist spy was found operating in Parliament.

The UK’s MI5 security agency took the unusual step of sending an alert to Parliament on Jan. 12 warning that an individual named Christine Ching Kui Lee has been “knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).”