MPs and peers urge UK government to do more to free jailed activist in Egypt

More than 100 MPs and peers have written to the foreign secretary to express concern over the lack of progress to free a jailed British-Egyptian activist. It comes seven months after the prime minister, Rishi Sunak, shook hands with Egypt's president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, while Alaa Abd el-Fattah was close to death due to a hunger strike. The former shadow foreign secretary Hilary Benn; the former leader of the Conservative party Iain Duncan Smith; John Montagu, the 11th Earl of Sandwich; and the last British governor of Hong Kong, Chris Patten, wrote to James Cleverly to "express our concern at the…