The UK’s reliance on cheap goods from the “brutal, dictatorial” Chinese regime to help avoid a recession is a “trade-off of human lives,” former Conservative Party leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has said.
Appearing on the Sophy Ridge On Sunday programme on Sky News, the senior MP was asked if the UK should seek to maintain good trade relations with China for the good of the economy.
He answered: “I think this is a trade-off of human lives. For me the Uyghur being incarcerated, the women being forcefully sterilised, often raped, we have children in re-education camps, Christian churches being cracked down on, arrests taking place; in Hong Kong people being arrested for their democracy campaign….