The vice president of China, Wang Qishan, will reportedly attend the Queen’s funeral - as the special representative of President Xi Jinping
Mr Wang, who is close to Mr Xi, was a member of the ruling Communist Party's all-powerful, seven-member Politburo Standing Committee from 2012 to 2017.
A group of British MPs sanctioned by China have expressed concern that the Chinese government has been invited to the funeral.They told the BBC the invitation should be rescinded because of human rights abuses in the treatment of the Uighur ethnic group in China's far-western region of Xinjiang. Commons Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle is understood to have refused the request for access over Chinese sanctions against the five MPs and two peers.
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