Tom Tugendhat

Tom Tugendhat is a Conservative Member of Parliament in the United Kingdom and a former security minister. He has been a prominent critic of the UK's approach to China, particularly on human rights and the treatment of parliamentarians. In the most recent coverage, a report by the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (Ipac), an international grouping of China-skeptic legislators, described the UK's approach to China as incoherent and plagued by a lack of senior expertise. The audit warned that past UK engagement with Beijing has often exposed the country to the risk of interference without delivering the opportunities promised. The article in which Tugendhat appears places him within this wider debate over how Britain should manage its relationship with Beijing. Earlier coverage noted his questions about Keir Starmer's trip to China and Chinese sanctions imposed on him and other MPs over the Uyghur issue.