My right hon. Friend, who chairs the Select Committee, is making an excellent speech. The judgment of the Supreme Court—the case was lost on a technicality—made it quite clear that Parliament is out of step with its UN treaty obligations. Does she agree that it is regrettable that despite that, Sarah Ewart has been forced to go through the High Court in Belfast, when we could have changed the law and avoided that outcome?
Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Huw Merriman
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 9 July 2019.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Northern Ireland (Executive Formation) Bill.
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