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SPIED-ON MPs DEMAND TO SEE SPOOKS’ FILES
Furious Labour politicians call for the release of secret reports on their personal and political lives
LABOUR MPs targeted by police spooks demanded the release yesterday of secret files compiled on their political and personal lives over 10 years.
Lib Dem Police Minister Mike Penning faced an urgent question over the covert surveillance of MPs on the final day of parliamentary debate before the election.
Only hours earlier, spook-turned-whistleblower Peter Francis had revealed that Special Branch spied on 10 Labour MPs during the 1990s.
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