Liz Truss
“So we are clear-eyed about China, but of course we have to trade with China and we have to work with our allies to help ensure that China is abiding by the global trade rules.”
Conservative Home editor Paul Goodman asked Mrs Truss about attempts by the House of Lords to insert an amendment into the Trade Bill passed this year forcing the Government to withdraw from any free trade agreement with any country which the High Court rules is committing genocide.
She replied: “It is fundamentally a foreign policy issue.
“The issue though is the way that the amendment has been framed does muddy the constitutional waters in terms of what’s a political decision and what's the court decision.