Extract from Commons statement on Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime - July 6

Tuesday, 7 July 2020 07:55

Brendan O'Hara (Argyll and Bute) (SNP) [V]: Can the Foreign Secretary assure the House that the application of the sanctions regime will be transparently even-handed and will not be blind to human rights abuses carried out by or in the name of our so-called allies and friends such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Israel or India, or indeed countries with which we are seeking to secure a post-Brexit trade deal? The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs and First Secretary of...Request free trial