Writing in The Times, the Prime Minister has said the UK will honour its obligations to the people of Hong Kong if China proceeds with imposing a new national security law.
- Since the handover in 1997, Hong Kong’s success and prosperity has been underpinned by the One Country, Two System doctrine, which has guaranteed freedom and autonomy to the people who live there.
- If China imposes a national security law on Hong Kong that curtails that freedom and autonomy, we will have no choice but the uphold our profound ties of history and friendship with the people of Hong Kong, by allowing the holders of British National Overseas passports to come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and giving them further immigration rights, which could place them on a route to citizenship.
- Britain wants nothing more than for Hong Kong to succeed under One Country, Two Systems and we want to work with China to ensure this is the case
