Senior judges have upheld a decision by MI5 to warn that an alleged Chinese agent had infiltrated Parliament and funded a Labour MP and others. In a highly significant judgment, the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) said that the security service had acted within the law when it named Christine Lee as a threat to national security, in an “interference alert” distributed to Parliamentarians and consequently made public. The IPT said that naming Ms Lee had been “necessary in a democratic society” and “a proportionate response to the threat she posed”.
The January 2022 alert warned that Christine Ching Kui Lee had established links for the Chinese Communist Party with current and aspiring MPs. The alert also said she had organised donations to politicians.
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