A MEMBER of the House of Lords has called for a clampdown on China after receiving a scam text he believes was from Beijing spies.
Lord Mann raised the alarm with Parliamentary authorities after a job offer from a fake recruiter on Tuesday.
That was the same day MI5 warned that Chinese spies are relentlessly targeting British politicians, including with bogus job adverts on LinkedIn.
Lord Mann, a former Labour MP and now an independent adviser to the Government on antisemitism, told The Sun on Sunday: “It is highly suspicious.
“China has got a big operation going on and they are brazen about what they are doing.
“How far does this go?
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“We have seen that China has gone on to infiltrate MPs offices. We need to be very very careful.
“If China is going to carry on doing this then we need action taken. We cannot allow a foreign state to be spying on us and trying to entrap parliamentarians.
“We need to be fronting them up.”
Last week, Security Minister Dan Jarvis announced a package of measures to tackle espionage threats to the UK.
These included £170m to upgrade encrypted technology for government business.
Mr Jarvis told MPs: “Our intelligence agencies have warned that China is attempting to recruit and cultivate individuals with access to sensitive information about Parliament and the UK government.”
