Powerful Tory MPs blasted Boris Johnson tonight for using “tricks” and “games” to avoid a crunch vote on genocide. Ex-leader Iain Duncan Smith was furious after the Prime Minister “deliberately blocked” a showdown with rebels.
Conservative backbenchers had been fighting for a change to the Trade Bill, which would rip up any trade deals with countries the High Court has formally accused of genocide.
But Tory whips bundled his amendment into one that would leave the accusation of genocide up to Parliament. Sir Iain compared the government’s pettiness to Handforth Parish Council, adding: “The government deliberately has blocked this.
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