Sergei and the Westminster Spy Ring - with Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes

From exclusive parties to the corridors of Westminster, Carole Cadwalladr and Peter Jukes - with the help of Conservative party whistleblower Sergei Cristo -  expose a secret spy ring operating in the very heart of the British political system. This is a story about the most successful Russian influence operation in British history…a story involving honey traps, Russian agents and information warfare. And which has never previously been brought to light. Beginning with a meeting between a Conservative party activist, Sergei Cristo, and a Russian diplomat newly posted to the capital, Russian wealth and glamour collide with a wild west of new digital landscapes. As Sergei tries and fails to raise the alarm, this intoxicating cocktail - shaken and stirred from within the Russian Embassy in London - masks the tightening iron fist of Vladimir Putin in Russia and murder of traitors on foreign soil. All while MPs, intelligence officers and even the police turn a blind eye. Not since the reach of the Cambridge spy ring in the second half of the 20th century has the Kremlin been so successful in penetrating the highest echelons of British intelligence.Together, Conservative whistleblower Sergei Cristo, Orwell Prize-winning journalist Carole Cadwalladr and creator of the hit podcast, Untold: The Daniel Morgan Murder, Peter Jukes, uncover a story that forms one small corner of Vladimir Putin's plot against the West. It’s a story we’re still living, where the stakes couldn’t be higher. This podcast seeks to shine a light in the dark corners of a Westminster spy ring hidden in plain sight and search for the answers we all deserve.A Project Citizen production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.