UK’s Genocide Amendment to Trade Bill to Return to Commons

Lords debate the genocide amendments to Trade Bill 2019-21 in the House of Lords chamber in Westminster, London, on Feb. 2, 2021. Parliamentlive.tv/Screenshot

An amendment aiming to stop and prevent the UK from doing bilateral trade with genocidal countries passed in the House of Lords on Tuesday by a two-thirds majority despite the Conservative government’s objection.

A previous version of the amendment was passed on Dec. 7 by 287 votes to 161, before it was narrowly defeated in the Commons.