The UK government on Monday won a tight race between two versions of a genocide amendment, clearing the last hurdle for its post-Brexit Trade bill to become law. The amendment, passed with 319 votes to 297, may potentially prevent the UK from entering trade deals with countries engaging in genocide. If a responsible select committee of either house of Parliament finds “appropriate” evidence that a “prospective FTA [free trade agreement] counter-party” has committed genocide, and is not satisfied with the ministerial response to such findings, the committee can set out the wording of a motion, and a minister has to make an arrangement for the motion to be debated and voted on in Parliament. The amendment is a watered down version of an amendment proposed by Lord David Alton of Liverpool, which originally sought to give the UK’s domestic courts the power to make preliminary determinations on genocide, and to stop prospective …