UK demands answers after MP denied entry

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy yesterday 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.

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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. Ms Hobhouse is a member of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China.

“IPAC unites lawmakers worldwide, promoting democracy and addressing threats to the rules-based and human rights systems posed by the rise of China,’ the group says on its website.

The Sunday Times newspaper said Ms Hobhouse, 65, flew to Hong Kong last Thursday on a personal trip to visit her newborn grandson.