Senior Conservatives are gearing up for a renewed push to force Boris Johnson to take a tougher stance against China.
Lord Hague of Richmond is among those endorsing research that he says details evidence of human rights abuses in the country.
In a report being published on Wednesday, the Conservative Human Rights Commission accuses the Chinese regime of torture, slave labour, surveillance, forced televised confessions and arbitrary disappearances and detention, most notably in relation to minorities such as the Uighurs.
In Red Box today Nus Ghani, a Tory former minister, is rallying support for a change to forthcoming trade legislation to allow British courts to rule whether a country is guilty of genocide.
Supporters hope that removing the need for international courts on any
