Senior Tories have lashed out at the "outrageous" decision to invite the Chinese architect of the crackdown on Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests to the King's Coronation.
Han Zheng, who was recently appointed as president Xi Jinping's deputy, will represent China at the historic event on May 6, according to Politico.
Former Tory leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith described him as "responsible for trashing" China's Hong Kong treaty with Britain by overseeing a crackdown on demonstrations in 2019.