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Ministers seek answers after MP barred by Hong Kong
The Guardian
|April 14, 2025
The government is "greatly concerned" and wants an account of why the Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse was denied entry to Hong Kong on a visit to meet her three-month-old grandson for the first time.
Hobhouse, 65, the MP for Bath, said she was held at Hong Kong airport on arrival on Thursday, told she was being refused entry and put on a flight back to the UK five hours later.
The Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, has called on the foreign secretary, David Lammy, to "meet urgently with Hobhouse to discuss her case, and summon the Chinese ambassador to provide a full account".
This story is from the April 14, 2025 edition of The Guardian.
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