Some have arrived through a route that grants immigration officers discretion to allow entry for six months, but are now trapped with no job and no cash, reliant on hand-outs.
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The Hong Kongers are coming and Britain is not prepared
Juliet Samuel
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London | It s an image that should haunt us for a long time. A British citizen chained and bound, flanked by police, being marched into a kangaroo court to be charged with colluding with foreign powers.
What, then, do you think Britain did? What denunciations thundered forth from the Foreign Office? What consequences followed?
Diddly squat, that s what. Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab had this limp opinion to offer on the case of Jimmy Lai, the British citizen, democracy activist and Hong Kong tycoon: We have raised this case with the authorities in Hong Kong and call on them to end their targeting of Lai. That ll show em.