Foreign Office Asks Djibouti Why Anti-China MP Was Deported

The Foreign Office has asked for more information from the government of Djibouti after a Conservative MP and prominent critic of China claimed he was deported from the African country, which has close links with Beijing. Tim Loughton, who was travelling from Somaliland, said he was detained for seven hours at the airport in Djibouti before being escorted onto a flight leaving the small nation, a former French colony close to the Horn of Africa. Mr. Loughton, who has been a long-time critic of Beijing, last month appeared at a press conference for the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China when his colleague, Sir Iain Duncan Smith said MPs would not be “bullied into silence by Beijing.”...