Member

“Mr Bates vs The Post Office” must constitute the most consequential political drama of my lifetime, demonstrating the capacity of television drama—actually, it was not the BBC, was it?—to demonstrate more effectively to the general public than speeches ever can the extent of a grave public wrong, generating huge pressure for upending the presenting injustice. It is extraordinary that we should now have a Government who are so morally bankrupt that they should propose that we mark the 60th anniversary of our committing the great wrong of denying the people of the Chagos Islands self-determination by doing so once again.