Hostile states pose 'real risk' to UK security as MPs warn reforms needed to prevent 'next great parliamentary scandal'

MPs call for reforms to prevent ‘next great parliamentary scandal’

Standards Committee chair Chris Bryant said the report comes as a 'wake-up call for us all'

Lax parliament security ‘allows hostile states to influence MPs’

Hostile states are infiltrating parliament and using MPs as an “attractive and accessible target” for spies, according to a report being released today.An investigation by the Commons standards committee found that parliamentary groups allow foreign governments unregulated access to Westminster with

Hostile states pose 'real risk' to UK security as MPs warn reforms needed to prevent 'next great parliamentary scandal'

A major report was commissioned into how the hundreds of informal cross-party groups are regulated after a Chinese spy infiltrated one group, giving more than £500,000 in donations to a Labour MP before she was outed earlier this year.

All-party groups: Foreign influence could be next scandal, MPs warn

Parliamentary groups are at risk of giving "improper access" to hostile states, a report warns.

Hostile foreign states pose ‘real risk’ of influencing MPs’ cross-party groups

Standards committee report calls for reforms to all-party parliamentary groups to avert ‘next great parliamentary scandal’

Parliamentary groups under threat from 'hostile foreign actors' and commercial lobbying, report finds

The groups risk being "a backdoor means of peddling influence around the corridors of power," if restrictions are not imposed, Chris Bryant told MPs.