EXCLUSIVE: Four areas unprepared for Hong Kong 'surge arrival'

By Dan Peters | 21 January 2021

Four local resilience forums have admitted they are unprepared for the potential arrival of thousands of Hong Kongers who are expected to move to UK.

It is estimated that up to 500,000 British National (Overseas) citizens and their immediate dependents could move to the UK in the next year as a political crisis in the territory deepens and more than one million could immigrate over five years.

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