THE conservative Co-operative Resources Centre's painful progress towards becoming a political party received a significant boost this week with the news that convenor Mr Allen Lee Peng-fei would be received by the Prime Minister, succeeding in a stroke where other more liberal counterparts with no major political party backing have failed.
It may be reading too much into the Prime Minister's failure to see Miss Emily Lau Wai-hing or Meeting Point's Dr Leong Che-hung to claim it suggests a softening of the British Government's position. However the CRC, for all its faults, is now the only major political group that can claim to have access both to Mr John Major and Chinese Premier Mr Li Peng.