THE British government will come under intense pressure today to say if its intelligence services were operating a spy ring in Stormont.

Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams (pictured) should quit in the wake of spying allegations which have rocked his party, a leading SDLP member claimed today.

The British government was tonight challenged to launch a public inquiry into the Stormontgate affair after a top Republican official, who admitted he was a British agent, said the matter had been “a scam and a fiction” invented by UK intelligence.

THE suspension of the Stormont Assembly in 2002 took on an extraordinary series of Machiavellian twists yesterday with revelations that Sinn Féin’s head of administration at the Assembly has been a British spy for two decades.

Democratic Unionist Party leader Ian Paisley is demanding a statement from the British government explaining the so-called Stormontgate affair.