Part of European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill – in the House of Commons at 5:00 pm on 8 February 2017.
May I give the right hon. Gentleman some reassurance on two points? First, having served as the Minister responsible for human rights, I can say that it was never in the Conservative plans for a Bill of Rights to pull out of the European convention on human rights. I made that clear monthly at Justice questions. Secondly, precisely because the Council of Europe is completely independent from the EU, this is an entirely meaningless amendment.