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Commons chief urged Reeves to speak up for Hong Kong campaigner jailed

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Tory MP Nusrat Ghani was privately rebuked for joining a cross-party appeal to the Chancellor.

She had urged Rachel Reeves to raise the plight of Jimmy Lai a British citizen.

Ms Ghani is understood to have been ticked off by her boss, Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle .

But sources said Sir Lindsay ’s intervention came only after Labour Whips demanded she be disciplined.