China denies interfering in UK politics after MI5 alert
China says it has no need to “buy influence” after MI5 said an agent of the country infiltrated Parliament. …
Mr Gardiner later told Sky News: “From my point of view, that money was there to improve the work I was able to do in Parliament, and to improve the work I was able to do for my constituents – it paid for those researchers and it paid for them directly, none of it was for my personal benefit.”