British lawmakers have been warned that Chinese spies are posing as job recruiters to target MPs and parliamentary staff in a bid to obtain “insider insights” on behalf of Beijing’s Ministry of State Security.

The warnings from the UK domestic intelligence service, MI5, were relayed in a letter to Members of Parliament by the Speaker of the House of Commons, Sir Lindsay Hoyle, on Tuesday.

It comes in the wake of the leftist Labour government facing accusations that it intentionally hindered an investigation into alleged Chinese spying by a British parliamentary researcher and an academic by refusing to provide testimony to the Crown…

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