Iain Duncan Smith questions foreign secretary David Cameron's links to ChinaGB News
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00:00 Are you offended at the fact that you aren't good enough to be Foreign Secretary?
00:03 In fact, you annoy any of your colleagues in the House of Commons.
00:05 He's had to go and find a Foreign Secretary who isn't even in the House of Lords to do the job.
00:10 Is that not annoying for you?
00:11 Well, I have one or two concerns.
00:12 Let me say that I am sanctioned.
00:14 I'm one of seven people in Parliament that is sanctioned by the Chinese government.
00:17 We discovered through IPAC, the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China,
00:20 there was a genocide taking place in Xinjiang.
00:23 People are literally being forced into labour, slave labour.
00:26 That's why you couldn't be Foreign Secretary.
00:28 More than that, it's the fact that I, therefore, being sanctioned,
00:30 hounded by wolf warriors, etc., as are my colleagues,
00:33 our sights are attacked.
00:35 And then David Cameron is coming in, and I'm a little bit puzzled about this,
00:38 because until recently it appears that he's being paid by the Chinese government
00:42 to promote certain things to do with the government.
00:44 I want to know, I'll be honest with you, why that's a conflict.
00:48 And I want to know how that is to be settled,
00:50 because we are under threat the whole time, and we are members of the Parliament.
00:54 A couple of people are in government, for God's sake.
00:56 So this is a real question mark for me, about what is that conflict,
01:00 and how is that to be settled.
01:01 And indeed, David Cameron was quite pro-China,
01:03 because I was on the plane with him back in 2011 to Shanghai.