Member

Incidentally, let us forget that this was not in the manifesto. No Labour Peer can say that it was, and no Labour MP can say that they were elected to do this. So, constitutionally, we have every right in this noble place to have this amendment of regret—not just because of the hypocrisy that I mentioned about the self-determination of the Chagossians but because of international law. There was the whole advisory thing that came from the UN, which we said was so important, and then we just absolutely ignored the UN committee that said this should be suspended because it had gone against the rights of the Chagossians and is racial discrimination.