China’s lifting of sanctions on UK MPs dismissed as ‘meagre return’ on PM’s visit

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(TibetanReview.net, Jan31’26) – Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer of Great Britain has said China had lifted “all restrictions” on six current members of the British Parliament, after he held talks with President Xi Jinping in Beijing. However, a Labour peer as well as a former Conservative security minister who had had their sanctions lifted have dismissed the move as too little from Starmer’s trip to China, which was preceded by his approval of China’s controversial mega-embassy plan in central London, according to bbc.com reports Jan 30.

Baroness Helena Kennedy, who was among seven parliamentarians sanctioned by China in 2021 for accusing Beijing of human rights abuses against...

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