Commons Speaker denies he has been 'leant on' to let Chinese attend Queen's lying-in-state

Commons Speaker Lindsay Hoyle denies he has been 'leant on' to let Chinese attend lying-in-state

Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith accused the government of “appeasing” Beijing by allowing its leaders to visit Westminster Hall to pay their respects ahead of the, despite several British MPs and peers facing travel bans by the Chinese state.

This essentially confirmed that the Chinese vice president Wang Qishan, who is attending the funeral on behalf of president Xi Jinping, would be allowed into Westminster Hall, which is on the parliamentary estate. “I can say, no one has been leaning on me at all, far from it,” Sir Lindsay told BBC1’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg.

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