The UK needs to create new laws that force agents of “hostile, adversarial, and authoritarian states” to register and disclose their activities in the UK, a new report says. The report (pdf), published on Wednesday by Conservative MP Bob Seely and foreign policy and national security think tank the Henry Jackson Society, said the UK’s archaic Lobbying Act is not capable of dealing with agents and proxies of foreign states. “The UK is influence peddlers paradise at the moment,” Seely said on Wednesday during a report-launching webinar. “Hostile state activity, since the 1990s has become more subtle, more complex in many ways, and more broad.” Although it’s common for governments to use lobbying to influence other countries, “a number of hostile, adversarial, and authoritarian states—including, but not limited to, China and Russia—have utilised lobbying as part of their operations to undermine the West,” the report reads. “These operations take place in the so-called …