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A cross-party group of more than 137 parliamentarians, including 117 MPs, have called on parliament’s pension fund to disinvest from Chinese companies accused of complicity in gross human rights violations or institutions linked to the Chinese state.
The signatories included the late Conservative MP Sir David Amess, in one of his last political acts before his death on Friday.
