A Chinese spy agency has managed to silence debates in British universities, a senior Conservative lawmaker has warned. Tom Tugendhat, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, told the House of Commons on Feb. 10 that China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS), the communist regime’s main intelligence agency, has been working to erode freedoms in UK university campuses. Tugendhat said he had spoken to some students the day before, who told him that “their debates in their universities were silenced.” “They said that people were not willing to speak out or to stand up for what they knew was true, because they would face the pressure of the Ministry of State Security, China’s enforcement arm, in silencing them in debate here in the UK,” said Tugendhat, who is also a co-founder of the China Research Group of Conservative MPs. Tugendhat said the students told him that the interference “often comes from …