Tag: British Parliament

54 British Parliament Members Petitioned for the Release of Hong Kong Former Legislative Council Member

It has been two years since the Hong Kong Government prosecuted 47 candidates at the pro-democracy primaries. Fifty-Four bipartisan members of the House of Commons and the British human rights group Hong Kong Watch urged the Foreign Office to step in and push for the release of the defendants. Bipartisan members, including former Hong Kong…


House of Lords Should Be Replaced With Elected ‘Modern Second Chamber’: UK Labour Party

The House of Lords should be replaced with an elected “modern second chamber,” the UK’s main opposition Labour Party has said. The House of Lords is the second chamber of the British Parliament. Its main job is to scrutinise and amend parliamentary bills proposed by the House of Commons before they pass into law. The…


Elon Musk Invited to Give Evidence to UK Parliament on Twitter Takeover

Elon Musk has been invited to give evidence to a UK parliamentary committee about his takeover of social media platform Twitter. Julian Knight, a Conservative MP who chairs the Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) Committee, has written to the Tesla and SpaceX boss inviting him to “discuss the future of Twitter” in the British…


Chinese Spy Operating in UK Parliament Is ‘Tip of the Iceberg’: Senior Conservative

Recent revelations of a Chinese communist spy operating in the British Parliament is “just the tip of the iceberg,” a senior Conservative lawmaker has said. Britain’s MI5 security agency took the unusual step of sending an alert to Parliament on Jan. 12 warning that an individual named Christine Ching Kui Lee has been “knowingly engaged…