Furious Tory backbenchers tore into Boris Johnson today for using 'arcane games' in parliaments to block their attempt to veto trade deals with nations accused of genocide. But his proposal prevents a straight up and down vote on the Lords genocide amendment, instead seeking to disagree with that and one other and replace it with the compromise proposal. Tory former leader Sir Iain Duncan Smith accused the Government of deliberately blocking a vote on the Lords amendment on genocide. He told the Commons: 'Genocide is notoriously hard to prove with a high legal threshold. Conservative former minister Nusrat Ghani accused the Government of using 'every tactic and trick in the book to prevent a vote on the New Genocide Amendment'.

Source: Daily Mail February 09, 2021 15:02 UTC