MI5 send urgent email to MPs warning about Chinese woman trying to corrupt UK ...

Every MP in Britain was today warned by MI5 that a Chinese woman linked to the country's Communist state is trying to improperly influence them.

The woman, named as Christine Lee, has been monitored by the security services for some time but has not been arrested and is not being expelled as it stands.

A warning memo was sent to all MPs and Peers in Westminster by the Speaker's Parliamentary security team, and no politicians are suspected of any criminality.

An attached alert said she was 'knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the United Front Work Department of the Chinese Communist Party'.

Conservative former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said this afternoon that he understood MI5 had contacted Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle about the matter. 

Raising a point of order in the Commons, Sir Iain said the Speaker has emailed MPs.

He said: 'They key issue here is I understand that Mr Speaker has been contacted by MI5 and is now warning members of Parliament that there has been an agent of the Chinese government active here in Parliament working with a Member of Parliament, obviously to subvert the processes here.

'I say, as a Member of Parliament who has been sanctioned by the Chinese government, that this is a matter of grave concern.'

The email, revealed by The Sun, said: 'I am writing now to draw your attention to the attached Interference Alert issued by the Security Service, MI5, about the activities of an individual, Christine Lee, who has been engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party, engaging with Members here at Parliament and associated political entities, including the former APPG: Chinese in Britain.

'I should highlight the fact that Lee has facilitated financial donations to serving and aspiring

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