UK wants explanation after MP refused entry to Hong Kong

Ministers call denial of entry for Wera Hobhouse concerning' after she flew there to visit newborn grandson

The UK government is greatly concerned" and wants an account of why the Liberal Democrat MP Wera Hobhouse was denied entry to Hong Kong on a family visit to meet her three-month-old grandson for the first time.

Hobhouse, 65, the MP for Bath, said she was held at Hong Kong airport on arrival on Thursday, told she was being refused entry and put on a flight back to the UK five hours later.