The UN's referral of the Chagos Islands to the International Criminal Court is excellent news.
The treatment of my friends the Chagossians is a stain on this country and a stain on the Labour Party.
But Labour's current Leader has been valiant in their cause over many decades, as he has been in the causes of my friends and theirs, the Dalits, and of my friends and theirs, the Rohingya, the mere mention of which latter is enough to secure one's arrest here in the fiefdom of his internal party enemies.
Moreover, Vince Cable does also have some history of sympathy towards the Chagossians. There are many reasons to see him as the best available candidate for Leader of the Liberal Democrats. This is one of those reasons.
You've probably done more than anyone to ally the Chagossians, the Dalits and the Rohingya with each other. You did it in response to Jeremy's Leadership campaign, but even so.
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