The UK government has bundled the highly anticipated genocide amendment with a different amendment ahead of the Parliamentary vote on Tuesday afternoon, a move that’s been blasted as “shameful” and “parliamentary skullduggery.” Former Conservative leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith has called the move a “sad tragedy.” “The sad tragedy is that the Government has so engineered it that tomorrow the democratically elected [House of Commons] will not be able to vote on Lord Alton’s #GenocideAmendment which passed in the [House of Lords] with a majority of 171,” Duncan Smith wrote on Twitter on Monday. “The Government has run out of arguments and is now using arcane procedural games which demean our democracy and the [House of Commons],” he wrote in another tweet on Tuesday. The so-called “genocide amendment” to the UK’s post-Brexit trade bill (pdf) aims to stop and prevent the UK from doing bilateral trade with genocidal countries. A previous version of the …
UK Government Accused of Playing ‘Parliamentary Skullduggery’ to Block Genocide Amendment
February 9, 2021
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