The legitimacy of trading with genocidal countries is the battle of our times, the UK’s Lord Alton of Liverpool has said, drawing parallels with the opium and slave trades in past centuries. Lord Alton is the author of an amendment to the UK’s post-Brexit Trade Bill often dubbed the “genocide amendment,” which, if adopted, would give UK courts the power to determine whether a current or potential trade partner has committed genocide. Some Parliamentarians have argued that the Trade Bill is not the right place to deal with genocide, but Lord Alton disagrees. “It’s never the right bill, it’s never the right time; if you don’t want something to happen, you will always argue that,” he told The Epoch Times on Friday. “But actually, the great free trader of the 19th century, Richard Cobden, he also led the campaign in Parliament against trade in the Opium Wars, against the slave …