Controversial Labour grandee Geoffrey Robinson assisted a Chinese Communist Party-linked consortium that bought Princess Diana's prep school as a 'pilot project' for spreading the country's culture around the world, The Mail on Sunday can reveal. Two years ago, The Mail on Sunday revealed that Mr Robinson had been reported to Scotland Yard over a £30,000-a-year taxpayer-funded salary paid to constituency worker Brenda Price. In 2019, the MoS revealed that intelligence files named Mr Robinson as a spy who allegedly handed defence secrets to Communist-run Czechoslovakia during the Cold War. Both he and Mr Robinson were also founding directors of an international school that was established in Coventry in early 2015. Riddlesworth Hall School and the Chinese Embassy did not respond to requests for comment.

Source: Daily Mail July 10, 2021 21:00 UTC