Member

If the driver is anti-colonialism, then this Bill and the treaty are not even driving anti-colonialism under that narrow definition. If we are to be anti-colonialist, surely the people we should be serving are those whom we have colonised—the Chagossians. The Bill fails on every level, which is why I very much support the amendments from the noble Lords, Lord Callanan and Lord Lilley, and others in this group. I await a much more definitive answer from the Government on the legal rationale behind why this has to be done.