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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Harry Taylor

Government facing ‘walk of shame’ over Chinese embassy decision – Duncan Smith

Activists protest over the planned embassy in central London in February (PA/Jordan Pettitt) - (PA Wire)

Plans for a Chinese super-embassy in central London have become a “walk of shame” for the Government, a former leader of the Conservative Party has said.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith said response by the Government to the proposed embassy near the the capital’s financial district had become “Project Kowtow”, as he criticised the Government for “one denial after another (and) one betrayal after another”.

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