PRESSURE is building on Labour to sack the UK’s trade envoy to Turkey following his visit to northern Cyprus – despite Britain not recognising it.
Afzal Khan, the Labour MP for Manchester Rusholme, is in the self-declared state for a ‘series of official engagements’ and has met the leader.
But the British Government does not recognise the breakaway territory which Ankara controls following its invasion of the island 50 years ago.
The trip has prompted fury, with the National Federation of Cypriots in the UK which represents more than 300,000 British citizens of Cypriot origin calling for his dismissal.
Wendy Morton, the shadow foreign affairs minister, wrote to her counterpart Stephen Doughty yesterday to question why Mr Khan was still in the envoy role.
