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The Lord Bishop of Manchester

Speaking in the House of Lords on 13 May 2025

Debate

Trade Negotiations

Contribution

My Lords, I too welcome both trade agreements in recent weeks and congratulate His Majesty’s Government on achieving them. I know that in my diocese in Manchester, the large Indian diaspora community will be working hard to help British exports where they have improved opportunities. I am not sure that the Minister quite answered the question from the Liberal Democrat Front Bench, with references to human rights and climate change. I want to widen that slightly with regard to the upcoming trade strategy that the Statement referred to and ask whether there is any ethical component to it? Will moral considerations play any part in negotiating the trade agreements, or is trade, in effect, an ethics-free zone?

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