Brexit: Human Rights

Debate between Lord Keen of Elie and Viscount Younger of Leckie

Tuesday 12th December 2017 Lords Chamber

[Baroness Kennedy of The Shaws]

My Lords—

[Viscount Younger of Leckie]

Order!

[Lord Keen of Elie]

I was very happy to allow the noble Baroness to speak in the gap and to take her earlier intervention, but there is a question of time and I am not going to take a further intervention. I have to come back to the noble Baroness, Lady Chakrabarti, and say that I am pleased that the Labour Party has decided to put human rights at the centre of its policies—I thought they were always there. I certainly hope so. Human rights have always been at the centre of our policies. It is important that we recognise that and that we reject those intrusions on human rights that can come from any number of directions, be it on the grounds of disability, nationality or religion, including anti-Semitism.

I thank noble Lords for contributing to this debate and the noble Lord, Lord Cashman, for raising this issue in the House.