Sir Julian Lewis: Ministers keep saying “How dare you compare this with the Falkland Islands?”, but Labour’s manifesto at the last election gave a commitment to defend the sovereignty of the British overseas territories – not some of them, all of them. If they cannot be trusted on this one, they cannot be trusted on any of them.

[Dr Kieran Mullan (Shadow Minister for Justice): My right hon. Friend highlights the lessons that the rest of the world will be drawing from this decision. …]