Two people linked to a Chinese intelligence operation targeting MPs on LinkedIn are connected to senior officials within the Home Office, Foreign Office and NATO, The i Paper can reveal.

MI5 has issued an espionage alert to MPs and peers in the House of Lords warning that Chinese intelligence services were “relentless” in trying to “interfere” and “influence” Parliament .

Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle and his counterpart in the House of Lords, Lord McFall, circulated the “espionage alert” to MPs claiming that the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS) was “actively reaching out to individuals in our community”. New Feature

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The alert said Chinese spies were using “false personas”, posing as headhunters and connecting with in

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