British lawmakers underlined that foreign investments in the UK defence supply chain should be restricted to companies from NATO countries or London s allies outside.
China Must Be Banned From Investing in UK Defence Supply Chain, Lawmakers Say
Investments from China and other hostile states pose a risk to Britain’s national security and should be banned from the UK’s defence supply chain, a British parliamentary committee said on Sunday.
The cross-party Defence Select Committee warned that Britain’s defence supply chain has been “open to potentially hostile foreign involvement” as a result of the Ministry of Defence’s “country-agnostic” handling of inward investment.
The committee recommended that the Ministry of Defence publish a list of approved countries from whom investment should continue. It said “all those countries falling outside of this list should be barred from investing in the UK’s defence supply chain, including China and Russia.
Legitimacy of Trading With Genocidal Countries Is the Battle of Our Times: Lord Alton Genocide amendment author confident House of Lords will send amendment back to Commons
The legitimacy of trading with genocidal countries is the battle of our times, the UK’s Lord Alton of Liverpool has said, drawing parallels with the opium and slave trades in past centuries.
Lord Alton is the author of an amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill often dubbed the “genocide amendment,” which, if adopted, would give UK courts the power to determine whether a current or potential trade partner has committed genocide.
UK: Johnson government orders review of “left wing extremism”, targeting Socialist Workers Party and “far-left entryism”
Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative government has announced a review into “left-wing extremism”. The review will be led by former Labour MP John Woodcock, now Baron Walney, in his post as UK Special Envoy for Countering Violent Extremism, and will spearhead efforts to criminalise left-wing and socialist activity in Britain.
What amounts to a dragnet against the left was announced on Monday as a front-page “exclusive” in the pro-Tory
Telegraph under the headline, “Far-Left influence on Black Lives Matter and Extinction Rebellion to be probed”.