Chinese spies have planted surveillance in central London, including park benches and pubs near Westminster, and are eavesdropping on British politicians, the report claims.
Government sources are reported notification Please email on Sunday China’s eavesdropping devices have been discovered in popular areas that are frequently visited by civil servants and government researchers.
Areas like this are said to include the popular Red Lion Pub, located just a short distance from the House of Council and Downing Street. Government sources told the paper that the historic pub standing on the grounds of a medieval 15th-century tavern is “full of Chinese agents.”
Other targets for Dragget in Beijing are reportedly close to major government departments such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Finance, from the five-star hotel to the bench at St. James Park, located between Buckingham Palace and Downing Street.
A government source told the paper:
“Commons researchers are considered Whitehall’s soft belly by Chinese and other spies, including Russians and Iranians,” one source said.
Communist China is said to be particularly interested in lower-level civil servants, researchers and lower-level staff of parliament, who Beijing considers it to be the “soft belly” of the UK state. Many such staff often visit Red Lion’s pubs and have lunch at St. James Park.
However, the CCP remains actively targeting senior British politicians, particularly parliamentary members who are critical of the Chinese state.
Figures such as former Conservative leader Ian Duncan Smith, who was personally approved by China for raising genocide facing Muslim Uighurs in New Jiang, Frequently cyber attacks It is believed to originate from Beijing.
In 2022, MI5 Intelligence Services accused Christine Lee, founder of “UK China Project,” of acting as a spy on behalf of the CCP to “overturn the process” of democracy. Lee is known to be in close contact with many lawmakers, reportedly giving large sums of money to left-wing lawmakers and giving Labour £700,000.
At the time, British leader Nigel Farage said, “If there’s one Chinese spy in Parliament, you can bet that there’s more to your life.”
Farage also called for a “full roots and branch” investigation into Beijing’s relationship with the British political class, accusing him of “sucking into China for a long time.”
Earlier this month, the reform boss accused China of attempted industrial smash after the state-bound gingy company tried to permanently close Britain’s last major steel in 2020.
