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Foreign secretary responds to China sanctions on MPs

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Foreign secretary responds to China sanctions on MPs

Foreign secretary responds to China sanctions on MPs

Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has said the sanctions imposed by China in retaliation to those by the UK would not stop Britain from speaking out about the "industrial-scale human rights abuses taking place in Xinjiang".

China hit British institutions and MPs, including senior Tories Sir Iain Duncan Smith and Tom Tugendhat, with sanctions in response to similar moves by the UK over the treatment of the Uighur people.

Report by Blairm.

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