UK considering ban on NHS procurement of Chinese goods made in Xinjiang

Tory MPs want ministers to follow health bill amendment banning goods from regions with risk of genocide'

Ministers are looking sympathetically" at plans to stop the government buying health goods made in China's Xinjiang province when the health and social care bill returns to the Commons later this month. The move would be a first sign that the government is willing to toughen its approach to authoritarian regimes in the wake of the invasion of Ukraine.

In an interview at the weekend, the prime minister, Boris Johnson, said the west still needed to apply pressure on the Chinese government not to support the Russian invasion of Ukraine.