In January 2022, a rare security alert from MI5 sent ripples through Westminster. The UK’s domestic intelligence service warned MPs and peers about Christine Ching Kui Lee, a British-Chinese lawyer and founder of Christine Lee & Co, describing her as someone who had “knowingly engaged in political interference activities” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD). Among the revelations was a £5,000 donation made in 2013 by Lee’s firm to th