Chinese diplomats who reportedly 'attacked' protestors outside the consulate in south Manchester have 'fled the UK' since the incident, the Commons Foreign Affairs Committee chairwoman has said.
Six diplomats are understood to be leaving the UK two months after violence erupted outside the Chinese Consulate in Rusholme, with Foreign Secretary James Cleverly announcing that the Chinese consul general, Zheng Xiyuan, and five of his staff who police wanted to question, are leaving the country.
Former Tory leader Iain Duncan Smith said the diplomats should have been expelled and that their return to China 'uncharged' with 'their heads held high' is not 'justice'. However China has since insisted that the departure of the consul general was part of a 'normal rotation' of diplomats.
