I would have no objection to a PM coming out of the Hong Kong economic freedom tradition but that is not what the British mean when they say ‘Asian’ so I will say that I hope it would be either an Asian iconoclast or something of that sort. Otherwise it is the Mother Country committing suicide.
It is both a yes and no to what we mean when we say Asian. The press being PC may use it to mask Muslim when writing about crime, BUT the British generally use it for ‘lumping in’ people from Asia, both the Indo-Pakistani peoples of S Asia, and Asia generally. The British will use it therefore to mean both a person from India but also Hong Kong.
This idea we use it only to secretly mean Muslim is simply not true. The press may do so, the British public dosent.