{"id":1217851,"date":"2022-01-15T10:50:03","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217851"},"modified":"2022-01-15T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T15:50:08","slug":"farage-predicts-a-lot-more-chinese-spies-will-be-found-in-westminster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/farage-predicts-a-lot-more-chinese-spies-will-be-found-in-westminster\/","title":{"rendered":"Farage Predicts &#039;A Lot More&#039; Chinese Spies Will be Found in Westminster"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffarage-predicts-a-lot-more-chinese-spies-will-be-found-in-westminster%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1217851&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/GettyImages-660087628-640x335-1.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there are likely \u201ca lot more\u201d Chinese Communist spies operating in Westminster after it was revealed that an alleged Chinese spy had donated hundreds of thousands of pounds to left-wing politicians in Britain.<\/p>\n<p>Concerns over Chinese espionage within Britain have been escalated this week after it was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/13\/mi5-claims-chinese-spy-successfully-managed-to-infiltrate-uk-parliament\/\">revealed<\/a>&nbsp;that the UK\u2019s secret service MI5 had warned the speaker of the House of Commons that Christine Lee, the founder of the British Chinese Project, is believed to be working clandestinely as a spy for Beijing.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>It has been reported that Lee had given some <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/01\/14\/labour-party-accepted-700000-from-alleged-chinese-spy-report\/\">\u00a3700,000 in political donations<\/a>, the vast majority of which was directed to the Labour Party, in particular leftist Corbyn acolyte Barry Gardiner MP. The leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir Ed Davy, also received \u00a35,000 from Ms Lee. Both politicians have denied that they have been influenced by the CCP.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the spying scandal, Brexit\u2019s Nigel Farage said that he was not surprised by the revelations, noting that the \u201cBritish establishment have been sucking up to China for a long time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there\u2019s one Chinese spy in&nbsp;parliament, you can bet your life there\u2019s&nbsp;a lot more than that,\u201d he said, going on to call for a \u201ccomplete root and branch\u201d investigation into Communist China\u2019s connections to the British political class.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Farage: China Launching &#8216;Communist Takeover&#8217; as CCP-Linked Firms Buy UK Schools <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dzEOpXb9Ms\">https:\/\/t.co\/dzEOpXb9Ms<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1363477321374572544?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr Farage noted that political figures such as George Osborne \u2014 the former right-hand man of ex-Prime Minister David Cameron \u2014 had previously celebrated fostering&nbsp;a \u201c<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/av\/uk-34621254\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">golden era<\/a>\u201d between Britain and China during their time in office.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Cameron, himself, has also faced criticism over his connections to China after he tried to establish a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2021\/04\/26\/report-david-cameron-lobbied-uk-govt-chinese-investment-fund\/\">\u00a31 billion investment fund<\/a> for&nbsp;Greensill Capital with Chinese partners.<\/p>\n<p>Cameron is not the only former PM to seek financial ties to China, with former Labour Party Prime Minister going on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/investigations\/how-tony-blair-built-a-business-empire-in-china\/\">serve as a liaison<\/a> between Abu Dhabi and the&nbsp;\u201chighest levels of the Communist Party and state-run corporations\u201d in the Xinjiang region of China.<\/p>\n<p>Blair also reportedly earned&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2007\/nov\/08\/china.tonyblair\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">\u00a3237,000<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 more than his entire yearly salary as PM \u2014 for a single speech delivered in the Chinese industrial city of Dongguan in 2007.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Nigel Farage went on to note that many in the civil service, politicians and business leaders have accepted high-profile positions with firms from China. For example, the&nbsp;former head of the BT Group (formerly British Telecom) Sir Michael Rake&nbsp;<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/technology\/sir-mike-rake-steps-down-from-huawei-uk-board\/ar-BB1dKRmi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">served on the board<\/a> of controversial telecom Huawei from 2019 until 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Other prominent British figures <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huawei.com\/en\/news\/2015\/03\/hw_415000\">such as<\/a> the former CEO of British Petroleum (BP) Lord John Browne, top civil servant Sir Andrew Cahn, and former chancellor of the University of Southampton, Dame Helen Alexander have all served in an advisory capacity to Huawei, which has been accused of&nbsp;being <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/papers.ssrn.com\/sol3\/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3372669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">effectively state-owned<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Labour Party Accepted \u00a3700,000 From Alleged Chinese Communist Spy: Report<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hsE1AIC22L\">https:\/\/t.co\/hsE1AIC22L<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1482080077194178564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>On Saturday, the <em>Daily Mail<\/em> uncovered a Youtube <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/piezUzwS3Hk?t=225\">video<\/a> published by the UK Chinese Journal News account in 2015, in which the alleged Chinese spy revealed that she had lobbied 480 MPs on behalf of the \u201cChinese community\u201d for the British Chinese Project.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were able to force our concerns to the Parliament directly,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Lee added that her law firm \u2014 which was the only firm in Britain allowed to operate in China \u2014 facilitated Chinese firms open up business ties in the UK as well as helping British businesses operate in China.<\/p>\n<p>The paper went on to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-10404621\/Chinese-spy-heart-Whitehall-boasted-lobbying-480-MPs.html\">report<\/a> that Ms Lee\u2019s website, which has since been deleted, had described her as a legal advisor to the Chinese embassy in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>On top of lobbying MPs for the \u201cChinese community\u201d, Lee also reportedly campaigned for the pro-EU Remain movement during the 2016 Brexit referendum, raising questions over possible Chinese influence over the vote.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brexit leader Nigel Farage has warned that there are likely \u201ca lot more\u201d Chinese Communist spies operating in Westminster after it was revealed that an alleged Chinese spy had donated &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1217851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}