Hong Kong protests: read full transcript of Carrie Lam’s leaked ‘quitting’ talk
- The audio recording, which ran for 24 minutes, captures the bulk of a closed-door meeting Chief Executive Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor had last week
- In it, she appears to say she would quit if she had a choice. She has since denied ever offering to resign over the city’s current political crisis
She was responding to a Reuters report the previous day based on an audio recording of a closed-door meeting. Lam also said on Tuesday that she was “very disappointed” her private remarks had been recorded and said she had been trying to explain that resigning might be an easy option for her personally.
People who attended the talk said Lam spoke for about half an hour. The recording, which ran for 24 minutes, captures the bulk of the event but does not include a short question and answer session after her talk. Parts of the transcript have been redacted to remove the names of individuals mentioned by Lam, as well as details related to the meeting.
Transcript begins:
“In the last two years, one of the policy areas that I have spent most time in is innovation and technology. Now, I actually personally chair the steering committee.