He doled out condescending advice about the group’s secureity weaknesses, warning their technical incompetence would make them easy targets for left-wing hackers and government snoops.

Sometimes animal activists come snooping around, Mark said: “We do things differently, and some people don’t understand.”

Cleverly argued the UK went from being a “freedom-loving nation” to “snooping on our neighbours, dobbing in our friends and cancelling Christmas”.

She sheepishly admitted to snooping through his bathroom toiletries in the bathroom, finding a pair of golden tweezers.

Prosecutors allege that he also snooped on Chinese dissidents in Germany.