My hon. Friend has made a valuable point, and one that I was about to come on to. Why do some people in this country and some political groups, generally on the left, idealise international courts as if they were fonts of Olympian wisdom when, in my view, many of their judgments are highly political and highly tendentious? They seem to me to constitute an exercise in studied disrespect for the English common law, which I consider to be one of the great wonders of human civilisation and achievement, along with monotheism and one or two other things. We seem to be allowing the international courts to overrule those extraordinary achievements—all these great judges from on high, who do not come from traditional judicial systems anywhere near as strong or as noble as ours.
Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Bob Seely
(Conservative)
in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 17 January 2024.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Safety of Rwanda (Asylum and Immigration) Bill.
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