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MI5 warns UK lawmakers of Chinese spies posing as recruiters
Britain's security service says Chinese intelligence officers are using recruitment approaches to target parliament, an allegation Beijing denies.
28 October 2026
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Eleanor Whitcombe
National security, espionage and state-backed insiders
Eleanor Whitcombe is Insider Threat Roundup's security editor. She leads coverage of espionage cases, vetting failures and state-backed attempts to recruit people inside government and industry.
She spent more than a decade reporting on defence and intelligence from Westminster, and has followed leak inquiries and Official Secrets Act prosecutions through the courts.
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