LABOUR MP Geoffrey Robinson dismissed allegations that he was a Czech spy as a “lie” yesterday.

Mr Robinson, who represents Coventry North, denied allegations by the Mail on Sunday that he was a cold war spy who passed on sensitive government information to the Communist government in Czechoslovakia.

The Mail claims that Czech government files show Mr Robinson met a Czech spy several times between 1966 and 1969 under the codename “Karko.”

Mr Robinson, who was postmaster general in Tony Blair’s 1997 government, said the suggestion is untrue.

A statement issued via his lawyers said: “At no time did he ever pass confidential government documents or information to any foreign agent and he did not have access to such material.

“The allegations made by the Czech authorities 50 years ago are a lie.”

Mr Robinson worked for the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation in the late 1960s and helped facilitate the merger of British Motor Corporation with Leyland Motors in 1968.

From 1970 he worked for British Leyland before becoming an MP in 1976.