A senior MP has claimed that spies at GCHQ told him parliament’s email system was less secure than Google’s gmail service as he warned that China was attacking the UK’s democracy.
Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the foreign affairs select committee, said that more needed to be done by parliament and the government to defend democracy and freedom of speech.
Tugendhat, who was targeted with sanctions by Beijing in retaliation for British measures imposed over human rights abuses in Xinjiang province, claimed to have been the victim of Chinese “psyops” — psychological operations — including spoof emails to fellow MPs.
He said: “I was told by friends at GCHQ — not formally, I admit — that I was better off sticking to gmail rather than using
