Member

The public are baffled by the Government’s arguments in relation to this agreement, as indeed am I. Let us look at the legal rationale for capitulation. It has collapsed under scrutiny. We were told by the Minister at the Dispatch Box that the primary reason why this deal was needed was the “imminent threat of a binding judgment”, yet no such tribunal exists. Originally, I believe, the Minister thought that it was to be the International Court of Justice, but we now know, as the Minister should know, that the ICJ does not have binding capacity when the UK is dealing with a former Commonwealth country, so it is not the ICJ.