London, April 13, 2025 (AFP) - UK demands answers after MP denied entry to Hong Kong

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2025-04-13
British Foreign Secretary David Lammy on Sunday said he was deeply concerned after a UK lawmaker was denied entry to Hong Kong, and said he would be urgently raising the issue with the Chinese authorities. Wera Hobhouse claimed she was the first British MP to be refused entry on arrival in Hong Kong since the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997. Hobhouse is a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China. "IPAC unites law......
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