GAWAIN TOWLER, Ukip’s former media man, claims he was briefly courted to be a Chinese spy. Towler, who was also head of communications for the Brexit party, wrote in The Critic about being asked to become a lobbyist for “some Chinese and Hong Kong firms”. He was then taken on a business trip to Hong Kong, fed oyster porridge and asked to procure official documents “before publication”. He tells us he spoke out about because “I’m a lowly scrote and they’re prepared to give flights, Michelin-starred hotels, cash, and that’s before the secret stuff they were after. Who has taken it?”
Although he declined to pursue the relationship, not everybody is convinced. “On my Facebook page someone’s actually accusing me of being one, and that this is deep cover,” Towler said. A close shave.
