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The scheme, aimed at protecting the UK political system from covert foreign influence, had not been implemented by the time last July's general election was called, and has yet to come into force under Labour.

The scheme, aimed at protecting the UK political system from covert foreign influence, was passed into law, but never implemented, by the previous government.

Days later, the pair met for a third time where the double agent handed over a six-page typewritten account of covert work for the Soviet Union and how he had come to be recruited.

“I did a lot of covert stuff, surveillance.”

“Abel and Nathan’s covert take down and smear campaigns were revealed in black and white on Abel’s company-issued phone following her termination,” Jones said in her lawsuit.