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Chris Patten

September 2024

  • Chris Patten

    Mandelson’s call for Labour chancellor of Oxford ‘stupid’, says departing Patten

    University’s outgoing chancellor says it is a mistake to try to turn election for his successor ‘into a left-right issue’

August 2024

  • Protesters gather in Hong Kong’s Victoria Park

    Two Stand News journalists in Hong Kong found guilty of sedition

    Chris Patten condemns ‘dark day for press freedom’ as Chung Pui-kuen and Patrick Lam convicted over 11 articles
  • David Neuberger

    Former UK supreme court head quits media freedom role over work as judge in Hong Kong

    David Neuberger was part of court panel that dismissed appeal of Jimmy Lai and six other pro-democracy activists
  • Jimmy Lai

    Conviction of Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai ‘unjust’, says Chris Patten

    Former governor speaks out after appeal court upholds convictions of seven activists over 2019 protest

July 2022

  • Chris Patten

    The Hong Kong Diaries by Chris Patten review – handover notes

    The journal of Britain’s last governor makes for candid reading, supplemented by a polemical essay on Hong Kong 25 years on

June 2022

  • Chris Patten

    Boris Johnson general election victory would be ‘disaster’, says Chris Patten

  • Chris Patten photographed at his home in London.

    Chris Patten: ‘We have a populist government that is – fatally – not popular’

February 2022

  • Conservative MP Aaron Bell responding to Boris Johnson's statement to MPs in the House of Commons on the Sue Gray report on Monday.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Tory MP Aaron Bell calls PM’s position untenable as he submits letter calling for no-confidence vote – as it happened

    Newcastle-under-Lyme MP submits letter to Graham Brady after Downing Street rocked by resignations on Thursday

June 2021

  • People take a drink or chill in a terrace bar at Playa de Palma beach in Palma de Mallorca, a day before it becomes mandatory to wear a protective mask on the beach as a measure against the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), Spain, March 30, 2021. REUTERS/Enrique Calvo

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    UK removes quarantine requirement for arrivals from Balearics, Malta and some Caribbean islands – as it happened

    Latest updates: Northern Ireland makes announcement before update on England travel green list

January 2021

  • Pro-democracy activist Lester Shum is taken away by police officers in Hong Kong.

    China 'misled world' on Hong Kong security law, says Dominic Raab

    International criticism mounts after arrests of 53 people, as EU urged to drop economic deal with China

December 2020

  • Tobias Ellwood, the Conservative chair of the commons defence committee

    Tories criticise Boris Johnson over navy gunboats Brexit threat

  • The Chinese Embassy in Canberra. China Australia, relations, Chinese Flag, Peoples republic china embassy. Tuesday 1st December 2020. Photograph by Mike Bowers. Guardian Australia.

    Australia’s allies need to help it stand up to China or risk being ‘picked off’ too, former Hong Kong governor warns

July 2020

  • Lord Patten

    Lord Patten: Trump's re-election would hurt efforts to stand up to China

    Ex-governor of Hong Kong tells Tory lobby group an alliance is needed to protect rule of law

May 2020

  • Riot police patrol near China’s liaison office in Hong Kong

    Chris Patten: China's security laws a betrayal of Hong Kong people

  • Boris Johnson on the steps of 10 Downing Street during the Clap for Carers.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Britain comes together to clap for carers on Covid frontline – as it happened

April 2020

  • Chris Patten

    Chris Patten urges UK to investigate origins of coronavirus in China

    Ex-Hong Kong governor also says China is ‘turning screws’ on city during pandemic

November 2019

  • Chris Patten receives the union flag after it was lowered for the last time at Government House in Hong Kong on 30 June 1997.

    China threatening autonomy of Hong Kong, says Chris Patten

    Last British governor of region urges Foreign Office to object to Chinese remarks

June 2019

  • Protesters face off against police in Hong Kong

    China's extradition law should respect Hong Kong deal, says May

  • Chris Patten

    Hong Kong extradition bill is 'terrible blow' to rule of law, says Patten

January 2019

  • Jeremy Corbyn in the Commons this afternoon.

    Politics live with Andrew Sparrow
    Brexit: Corbyn says no deal planning 'fooling nobody' because MPs won't back it - as it happened

    Rolling coverage of the day’s political developments as they happen
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