A LIBERAL Democrat MP whose former aide is facing expulsion from Britain as an alleged Russian spy resigned from the House of Commons Defence Committee yesterday.

WHAT a week of old-fashioned Cold War intrigue. I haven’t had so much doublecross-tastic fun since Lisbeth Salander set up boxer Harold Neidermann in the final chapter of Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy.

An MP has denied his Russian assistant was a spy, amid reports that she is facing deportation from the UK after security services arrested her on suspicion of espionage.