News Snapshot:
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...
