UK Hong Kong scheme ‘funding charity with links to Chinese Communist party’

Placards and a toy tank lie in St Peter’s Square, Manchester, in preparation for a demonstration by the group Manchester Stands with Hong Kong, on the 4 June anniversary of China’s Tiananmen massacre. Photograph: Andrew McCoy/Sopa Images/Shutterstock

A consortium of Hong Kong community groups have accused the UK government’s flagship programme for welcoming Hongkongers of funding an organisation with alleged links to the Chinese Communist party (CCP).

Last week, the government announced grants worth more than £3m to a range of organisations that support east and south-east Asian communities, including Hongkongers who have recently arrived in the UK via the bespoke British National (overseas) (BNO) immigration route.