FILE PHOTO: Britain’s Prime Minister Boris Johnson walks outside Downing Street in London, Britain, July 7, 2021. REUTERS/Hannah McKay
July 7, 2021
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Wednesday he was “instinctively” against sporting boycotts when asked whether he would support a boycott of the Winter Olympics in China next year over its human rights record.
Asked whether he would support a call for a diplomatic boycott, Johnson told parliament: “This country has led the world in condemning human rights abuses in Xinjiang and putting sanctions on those responsible … I am instinctively, and always have been, against sporting boycotts.”
(Reporting by William James, writing by Elizabeth Piper; Editing by Kate Holton)
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