Will she or won’t she? Emotional Carrie Lam thanks supporters but remains coy on bid for second term as Hong Kong leader

Will she or won’t she? That was the question uppermost in many minds on this week after Carrie Lam Cheng Yuet-ngor spent more than two hours mapping out her vision for Hong Kong.

Political pundits pored over her 168-paragraph speech and a 202-page supplement for hints on whether she would make a bid for a second term as chief executive.