MI5 Wrong to Issue Agent Warning, Christine Lee’s Lawyers Tell Tribunal

An alert warning a London-based lawyer was acting on behalf of China’s communist regime contained “factual errors,” was “plainly wrong,” and should never have been issued, it has been claimed at a tribunal. In January 2022 MI5 issued an interference alert against Christine Lee, warning MPs she was a suspected Chinese agent who had engaged in “political interference activities” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). But on Monday at a hearing of the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, Ramby de Mello, a barrister representing Ms. Lee and her son Daniel Wilkes, said it was “plainly wrong” for the notice to have been issued....