‘Hong Kong Is Now a Rescue Mission’ Says Top Tory MP, as Boris Opens Path to Citizenship for 3 Million People

Former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith said that the UK should take as many Hong Kong refugees as it can, describing the “authoritarian overreach” of the draconian national security law implemented by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as a Tiananmen Square moment for the free world.

On Wednesday, Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the House of Commons that the British government will be offering settlement rights and a path to citizenship for up to three million Hong Kong residents.

Mr Johnson said that the introduction of the national security law represents a “clear and serious breach” of the 1985 Sino-British joint declaration — a legally binding agreement that was supposed to protect freedom and autonomy in Hong Kong for 50 years after the United Kingdom ceded control of the former colony to the regime in Beijing in 1997.

“It violates Hong Kong’s high degree of autonomy and threatens the freedoms and rights protected by the joint declaration,” Johnson said.