The alleged Chinese spy who had a close business relationship with Prince Andrew is set to be named by Reform UK.
Boston and Skegness MP Richard Tice says he will use parliamentary privilege to identify the man currently known as “H6” as early as Monday.
Party leader Nigel Farage has said his party was prepared to name the man if the courts did not lift the order.
Reform MPs would use Parliamentary privilege which protects MPs from legal action when speaking in the House of Commons Chamber.
Richard Tice has said Reform MPs would name the alleged spy linked to Prince Andrew
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Tice, the party’s deputy leader, told The Telegraph: “If he is not named beforehand, we will be looking to use parliamentary privilege later this week.
“The media should be asking: why is this name being protected and covered up? What is the British establishment scared of and trying to hide?“Just come clean to us all, otherwise it looks like a stitch-up and a cover-up.”
MPs and peers are legally immune from prosecution for breaching the Official Secrets Act, as well as slander and contempt of court, for statements they make in Parliament.
Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith will on Monday seek a Commons debate on the suspect’s alleged activities despite the convention that MPs do not discuss the affairs of senior Royals.
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Former leader of the Conservative Party, Iain Duncan SmithGETTYThe MP for Chingford and Woodford Green told The Telegraph: “It’s all over the internet and he’s boasting in China and he’s been boasting for ages. We all know that. They’re laughing at us, the Chinese are laughing at us.
Former Conservative Minister Tim Loughton, who was also sanctioned by Beijing, said the man ‘definitely should not be protected by anonymity’.
Labour MP for Blackley and Middleton South Graham Stringer added it was “ludicrous for this person to remain anonymous in the country he was allegedly spying on.”
David Davis, Tory MP and former cabinet minister, agreed that the anonymity order didn’t “seem right”, asking: “Why is his name being withheld?”
The Duke of York departs Westminster Abbey, London, following the Coronation of King Charles III
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H6, was described in court as having formed an “unusual degree of trust” with the disgraced duke, and is banned from the UK.
It comes amid reports that the businessman also met Lord Cameron and Baroness May on separate occasions, and kept pictures of the encounters in his London office.
The alleged agent was first excluded from entering Britain in 2023 by then-home secretary Suella Braverman, with the Home Office saying he was considered to have engaged in “covert and deceptive activity” on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.
Judges at a specialist tribunal in London on Thursday ruled Braverman had been “entitled to conclude” that he “represented a risk to the national security.”
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