Britain's proposed pathway to citizenship for residents of Hong Kong faces a huge stumbling block – China itself – that could scupper attempts by anyone to take up the offer.
Britons' 2016 vote in favor of leaving the EU was driven in part by a desire to reassert control over the country's borders and keep out migrants who compete for local jobs.
Passions over the issue have calmed since the wave of migrants from the Middle East swept across Europe about 5 years ago. Some anti-migrant groups active during the EU membership referendum have now voiced alarm at the idea of millions of Hong Kongers coming to Britain.But this view is not universal among more conservative groups that backed Britain's split from the EU.
The Spectator magazine that Johnson himself once edited has for decades campaigned in favour of standing up for Hong Kong and making its citizens British. Many older Tories also believe the immigration change rights a historic wrong that should have been offered before the handover in 1997.
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