UK challenged to 'Stormontgate' inquiry

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.

Denis Donaldson was working as a Sinn Féin Assembly group administrator in Stormont when the police raided the party’s offices investigating a Republican spy ring.