Conservative MP Nus Ghani is pushing for an amendment to the Trade Bill allowing judges to certify that a trade partner is committing genocide. Here's the version of the amendment already inserted by the House of Lords:
https://twitter.com/L4UR_UK/status/1350786709609455616
Former Trade Secretary Liam Fox: “trade policy should be for Parliament, not for the courts. We didn’t leave the European Union and ask to take back control of our laws only to pass them back to the UK courts”. #r4today
“We don’t need the courts to encourage Parliament to have an ethical stance”, Fox adds. #r4today
Here's Nus Ghani's anti-genocide amendment. It is much weaker than that passed by the Lords; a court's "preliminary determination" that a trade partner is committing genocide results only in a parliamentary debate. https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbill/58-01/0239/amend/trade_daily_ccla_0118.pdf
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