The British government will introduce new legislation to counter foreign interference, UK Home Secretary Priti Patel has said after a Chinese Communist spy was found operating in Parliament. The UK’s MI5 security agency took the unusual step of sending an alert to Parliament on Jan. 12 warning that an individual named Christine Ching Kui Lee has been “knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf of the United Front Work Department (UFWD) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP).” The alert states that Lee had been facilitating financial donations to UK political parties and politicians and that anyone contacted by her should be “mindful of her affiliation with the Chinese state and remit to advance the CCP’s agenda in UK politics.” Making a statement in the House of Commons on Jan. 17, Patel said she was “utterly appalled that an individual who has knowingly engaged in political interference activities on behalf …