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Iain Duncan Smith today revealed that intelligence chiefs have warned he is under 'active and direct threat' from the Chinese state.
The former Cabinet minister, a strident critic of the regime in Beijing, said he had been told to be 'very careful' and offered extra support from the UK authorities.
However, he also demanded to know how long ministers had known about the situation, and why they had not informed him before.
Speaking in a debate on China, Sir Iain said his work with the Interparliamentary Alliance on China had made him a target.
'I understand now there is intelligence from the Five Eyes sources that there is now a very active and direct threat from the Chinese government aimed directly at the co-chairs of the Interparliamentary Alliance on China,' he said.
Iain Duncan Smith said he had been told to be 'very careful' and offered extra support from the UK authorities
'Some of these co-chairs, of which I am one, have now been warned by their intelligence services in receipt of this that they should be very careful and that they will be supported.'
He said to foreign office
