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MPs voice concern over F1's failure to act on human rights

Despite the slogans, hashtags and virtue signalling, many are still concerned that when it comes to human rights, F1 continues to put profit first. Ahead of this weekend's Bahrain Grand Prix, a group of thirty British MPs has written to Chase Carey warning him of the country's record on human rights and urging him to take action as opposed to merely words. 'It's deeply disappointing that we haven't seen more progress from F1 when it comes to 'sportswashing' and Bahrain's human rights record,' Layla Moran MP, the Liberal Democrat Foreign Affairs Spokesperson who sent the letter on behalf of the 30 signatories, told the Daily Mail. 'We can't let human rights ever be a secondary...
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