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Lord Garnier (Con)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 March 2026

Debate

Crime and Policing Bill

Contribution

The Minister is very kind—and has a long memory. Does he remember, as I do, the debates we had in the run-up to the US-UK bilateral extradition treaty, which formed part of the Extradition Act of the same year? Does he remember that that was the subject of a great deal of reassurance from the then Labour Government, because the perceived imbalance between the rights of US citizens and those of United Kingdom citizens on the mutual extradition of our citizens was a matter of huge controversy? The noble Lord, Lord Blunkett, as he is now, was very happy to assure us that everything was going to be hunky-dory and that nobody would be dissatisfied by the implementation of the treaty. I accept that this is not on all fours with this debate introduced by the noble Lord, Lord Carter, but we need to be a little careful not to be too complacent. My noble friend Lord Wolfson identified two very good reasons why we should not be complacent, so I urge the Government to think, within the context of the 2003 disaster, that they should not blindly go down the road of another disaster through Clause 212.

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