A British man who would "dream about being like James Bond" was jailed for seven years on Friday after attempting to spy for Russia.

Howard Phillips, 65, was found guilty in July for trying to pass information about former Defence Secretary Grant Shapps to two men whom he believed were Russian intelligence agents.

However, the agents were undercover British intelligence operatives.

"You were prepared to betray your country for money," Justice Bobbie Cheema-Grubb told Phillips at his sentencing hearing at Winchester Crown Court.

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The judge said that Phillips had "a personality with narcissistic tendencies and an overblown sense of his own importance."

The trial heard that Phillips intended to assist Russian agents between the e

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