{"id":212809,"date":"2025-10-20T09:19:18","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212809\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T09:19:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T09:19:18","slug":"uk-parliament-mulls-crackdown-on-chinese-visitors-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/212809\/","title":{"rendered":"UK parliament mulls crackdown on Chinese visitors \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Speaker Hoyle discussed the situation with his European counterpart to learn how such restrictions could be practically imposed in the U.K., the Telegraph reported. Hoyle\u2019s office did not respond immediately to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes amid intense scrutiny of Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s government and the Crown Prosecution Service after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/british-prosecutors-drop-charges-against-alleged-chinese-spies\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charges against two men<\/a> \u2014 including a former researcher for a Conservative MP \u2014 accused of spying for China were dropped.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not the first time Hoyle has flexed his muscles on China. Beijing\u2019s Ambassador to the U.K. Zheng Zeguang\u00a0was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-parliament-bans-chinese-ambassador-zheng-zeguang\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">banned from parliament<\/a> in 2021 in retaliation for China imposing sanctions on British MPs critical of the country\u2019s human rights record.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Speaker Hoyle discussed the situation with his European counterpart to learn how such restrictions could be practically imposed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[625,2793,891,59,57,58,937,421,3714,50,470,154,155,47673,56,157,54,55,637],"class_list":["post-212809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-british-politics","tag-buildings","tag-china","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-human-rights","tag-lindsay-hoyle","tag-media","tag-news","tag-rights","tag-russia","tag-sanctions","tag-spying","tag-uk","tag-ukraine","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-westminster-bubble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}