Undercover surveillance

Labour witch-hunt: Spied-on MPs demand release of undercover police files

Labour MPs whose political and private lives were monitored by undercover police officers are demanding that the secret files kept on them be released.

Their request follows a discovery by Peter Francis, a former undercover policeman-turned-whistleblower, that 10 Labour MPs were tailed and spied upon by British police.

The surveillance was carried out as recently as the 1990s when the politicians had been democratically elected to parliament.