An undercover Metropolitan police officer proposed to an activist and lived with her for two years, BBC Newsnight has learned. <br />The previously unknown case will place fresh pressure on the force, which last year was forced to apologise to seven women who had similar relationships. <br />The woman, who is being referred to by the pseudonym Andrea to protect her identity, was friends with a group of left-wing political activists, mostly in the Socialist Party. <br />The Met would neither confirm nor deny the identity of the undercover officer, but said there had been "failures of supervision and management" in the past.
