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A senior MP has received a warning from Downing Street after MI5 discovered that he was holding meetings with a suspected Russian spy. Andrew MacKinlay, a Labour member of the powerful Commons Foreign Affairs Committee, was carpeted by Government Chief Whip Geoff Hoon after the intelligence services reported that he had tea with the agent at the House of Commons. The man, Alexander Polyakov, works as a counsellor at the Russian Embassy in London but is thought to report back to the SVR - the infamous agency once known as the KGB. Enlarge In classic spy-thriller fashion, British agents followed Mr Polyakov as he headed to Parliament for his rendezvous. After alarmed MI5 chiefs contacted Downing Street, Mr Hoon summoned Mr MacKinlay to warn him that he was 'being targeted by a Russian spy' and that it 'would not look good if it... [read full story]
