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June 03, 2020 British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has warned that he is ready to change immigration rules for 2.85 million Hong Kong residents and give them renewable visas with the possibility of working in the United Kingdom, a condition that opens them "the citizenship road ". This is London's response to China after the crackdown on the city-state with the approval of the security law for Hong Kong.   
In an editorial published by the Times and the South China Morning Post, the chief of Downing Street claimed that "Hong Kong is successful because its people are free" and warned that if Beijing applies national security law "the British government will change immigration rules. "

The 350,000 Hong Kong residents who have a British passport and the other 2.5 million who can apply for it "will be allowed to" come to the UK for a renewable period of 12 months and obtain additional immigration rights, including the right to work, that could put them on the road to citizenship. " "This would be one of the biggest changes in our visa system in British history," said Johnson. "to the inhabitants of Hong Kong who fear the authoritarian Chinese tightening. At the same time, Johnson expressed the hope that "it won't come to this, the UK wants nothing more than Hong Kong to succeed within 'one country, two systems'. I hope China wants the same."