Lawmakers should heap pressure on China over the Uyghur “genocide” by exploring a ban on the import of all cotton products linked to Xinjiang, a cross-party committee of UK MPs has said. The Foreign Affairs Committee also called for the government to boycott the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics as part of a series of recommendations to tackle human rights violations. Led by senior Conservative Tom Tugendhat, the MPs raised concerns on Thursday that currently the government’s “actions do not match its rhetoric” and have so far “proved ineffective.” Their report will heap further pressure on ministers to take greater action against Beijing for its alleged mass detention of more than one million Uyghurs and its forced sterilisation programme. “After every major atrocity and tragedy, the world says, ‘never again’. It is happening again. It is not too late to act,” the report says. They raised concerns that products made by …