Gulf States: Human Rights - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 11:15 am on 8 February 2018.

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Photo of Baroness Tonge Baroness Tonge Non-affiliated 11:15, 8 February 2018

My Lords, when will the Government—in fact, all Governments in this country—stop being so hypocritical on the matter of human rights in continuing to trade with countries that abuse human rights? Of course, I give the example of Israel which abuses the human rights of the Palestinian people, whose land they occupy, but it applies to many countries all around the Middle East. It is time that it was stopped and we applied sanctions until it stopped.