“Expect them to settle in Brighton, Greater Manchester, Sheffield, Leicester Liverpool and even Bristol,’ said Evan Fowler, founder and director of a Hong Kong media platform, who has been forced to sever all ties with the business because of Hong Kong s draconian national security laws.
“There is more interest in these areas than London itself which is prohibitively expensive even by very high Hong Kong standards and where networks are dominated by the CCP. Already, those political activists who have been granted asylum here dare not step foot in Chinatown for this very reason.”
Most, he added, will probably suffer a drop in salaries after their transition to the UK, but have chosen to make the move driven by fear of Beijing’s increasingly tightening grip on Hong Kong.