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Dan Sabbagh, Amy Hawkins and Eleni Courea

China in ‘covert and calculated’ effort to recruit MPs and peers, minister says

LinkedIn profiles of two people under the names of Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen.
LinkedIn profiles of two people under the names of Amanda Qiu and Shirly Shen. Composite: Linkedin

MPs and peers have been told they face “a covert and calculated” attempt to recruit parliamentarians through two LinkedIn profiles linked to the Chinese intelligence service.

After MI5 issued an espionage alert on Tuesday, saying that two people were operating on LinkedIn to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, the security minister, Dan Jarvis, told MPs the effort was focused on those “with access to sensitive information about parliament and the UK government”.

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