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We just heard from my noble friend Lord De Mauley about the extraordinary and touching loyalty of this population, who were doing a write-in option about British sovereignty when they were not asked about the sovereignty issue in the consultation. Despite how they have been treated and the forcible removal of the population in the late 1960s and early 1970s, they would still rather return to their ancestral islands as British overseas subjects. Let us at least apply the most basic principle of self-determination, on which the entire international order rests, and allow them a say.