Imprisonment of Catalan Leaders
Debate between Baroness Laing of Elderslie and Christopher Pincher(5 years, 1 month ago)
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Madam Deputy Speaker
Order. It is getting a little bit noisy, and we ought to hear the Minister’s final answer.
Christopher Pincher
Thank you, Madam Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman, with his usual pugnacity, asks what we think of Spanish judges and the sentences that they have handed down. I would gently say that if we start questioning what judges hand down, and if we think that we can think better than them and interfere in their right to hand down justice, as prescribed by their Parliament and their laws, we set in train the sort of barbarity that he was criticising.