Donald Trump has called on Britain to investigate an ex-MI6 spy who wrote a 'dirty dossier' full of lurid claims about the president-elect.

Christopher Steele compiled a 35-page report claiming that Trump was open to blackmail after allegedly being secretly filmed paying prostitutes to take part in a sex game on a hotel bed in Moscow.

Steele, who studied at Cambridge University, has packed his bags and fled his £1.5million Surrey mansion 'fearing for his life' and Russian reprisals after the story broke.

Donald Trump has called on Britain to investigate an ex-MI6 spy who wrote a 'dirty dossier' full of lurid claims about the President-elect

The President-elect and his aides have furiously denied the allegations in the reports with Trump himself branding BuzzFeed 'fake news' for publishing the claims.

And now in an interview with The Times, Trump has admitted he is so disgusted by lurid sex claims about himself, he was afraid to shake hands with anyone and has called for an investigation.

He told former British cabinet minister Michael Gove, who conducted the interview for the newspaper: 'I left, I wasn’t even there... I was there for the Miss Universe contest, got up, got my stuff and I left — I wasn’t even there — it’s all... so if this guy is a British guy you got a lot of problems.

Christopher Steele compiled a 35-page report claiming that Trump was open to blackmail after allegedly being secretly filmed paying prostitutes to take part in a sex game on a presidential suite bed in Moscow

'Well, that guy is somebody that you should look at, because whatever he made up about me it was false — he was supposedly hired by the Republicans and Democrats working together — even that I don’t believe because they don’t work together, they work separately — and they don’t hire the same guy — what they got together?

'See the whole thing is fake news because it said the, whoever it was, intelligence, the so-called intelligence, said he’s an operative of Republicans and Democrats — they don’t work together, they don’t work together.'

Meanwhile when asked who he thought was behind the dossier, the president-elect said he thought it could be the Democratic party or intelligence.

He added: 'When I just heard it — I ripped up the mat... if I did that in a hotel it’d be the biggest thing — they’d have me on the front page of The New York Post, right?'

Steele's dossier came to light last week and it claimed among other things that Russia had tapes of Trump engaging in 'perverted sexual acts' while in a Moscow hotel room.

Steele's involvement in the dossier leak has also embarrassed Prime Minister Theresa May only weeks before she is due to fly to America to meet the new US President

It circulated for months among major media outlets but neither the news organisations nor US law enforcement and intelligence agencies have been able to corroborate them.

Steele, a married father-of-four, who set up his own intelligence agency - Orbis Business intelligence company - has now gone into hiding.

His involvement in the dossier leak has also embarrassed Prime Minister Theresa May only weeks before she is due to fly to America to meet the new US President.

The revelations have also damaged Britain’s shaky relations with Vladimir Putin.