CHINA-UK: BORIS JOHNSON'S FATHER LEAVES CHENGDU AFTER BEING CAUGHT IN COVID LOCKDOWN
Bloomberg (September 5) disclosed that Stanley Johnson, the father of the UK’s outgoing
prime minister Boris Johnson, has left China after being caught in a Covid lockdown that
spoiled his plans to shoot a travel film in Xinjiang, where London has accused Beijing of
widespread rights abuses. The former Conservative member of the European Parliament, who has pushed for closer ties between the UK and China, was in quarantine in the megacity of
Chengdu when it went into lockdown last week. His youngest child, Max, who studied for an
MBA at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University and had been due to accompany his father
to Xinjiang, told Bloomberg News that Johnson had “left for the UK.”
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