UK-US Extradition Treaty

Part of Points of Order – in the House of Commons at 1:32 pm on 12 July 2006.

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Photo of Mike O'Brien Mike O'Brien Solicitor General, Law Officers' Department 1:32, 12 July 2006

I am listening with care to the hon. Gentleman's argument and trying to work out exactly what the "return" that he mentioned the need to have is. Is it that probable cause be removed? I think not, and the hon. Gentleman has not suggested that. Is it that the treaty should be ratified? He wants it to be ratified, but does he accept that an information and probable cause reciprocity is adequate? Is that what he is asking for, or is he asking for an abrogation of the treaty? He talked at one stage of going back to the drawing board; is it Conservative policy to abrogate a treaty with the United States?