Why, then, does the Victims and Prisoners Bill, as presented by the Government, require the Secretary of State to consult the Attorney-General before amending the victims’ code, if there is this long-standing convention that the Government are indivisible and the Attorney-General will always be consulted on important matters? Also, why is this significant decision potentially to ignore interim relief from the Strasbourg court for Ministers and not Parliament, given that the Government’s central argument in this Bill is about parliamentary sovereignty?
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Baroness Chakrabarti
(Labour)
in the House of Lords on Monday, 19 February 2024.
It occurred during Committee of the Whole House (HL)
and
Debate on bills on Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
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