Committee chair: Hong Kong entry ban 'very worrying'
The head of a parliamentary committee banned from entering Hong Kong has told ITV News the actions of the Chinese government are "a very worrying development".
MPs are pressing for an emergency Commons debate after China said it would not let the Foreign Affairs Committee enter the former British colony.
The committee had been planning the visit as part of an inquiry into relations with the UK 30 years after the joint declaration which led to the handover of Hong Kong to China in 1997.
The Chinese government has claimed the trip would be a "highly inappropriate act which constitutes interference in China's internal affairs".
Committee chair Sir Richard Ottaway said: "For them to be banning a parliamentary committee from one of their G20 partners from visiting Hong Kong I think is a very worrying development about the direction of travel of China."
