Iain Duncan Smith criticises the government’s China policy

On Tuesday afternoon, DUP MP Jim Shannon was granted an urgent question on Beijing’s recent crackdown on protesters which resulted in the assault of BBC journalist Ed Lawrence who was covering demonstrations in Shanghai.

Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith said: “There’s an endless litany now of China’s bad behaviour, and I simply raise this particular question with him. How is it yesterday the Prime Minister who previously said that China posed a systemic threat, has now moved to a systemic challenge?”.