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Business of the House

With a skill that, frankly, a Jesuit in the Vatican would admire, the Leader of the House glossed over the Prime Minister's statement yesterday about the EU sex slave trafficking directive, in which he said:"““We have put everything that is in the directive in place.””—[Official Report, 15 September 2010; Vol. 515, c. 873.]" However, I have the directive here, and it says that it allows"““extraterritorial jurisdiction (the possibility to prosecute EU nationals for crimes committed in other countries””," which is not in our law. The Prime Minister, I think, inadvertently misled the House. I welcome the debate on 14 October, but will the Leader of the House talk to the responsible Minister and persuade him that opting in is the best thing that the UK can do, instead of standing on the side of the pimps and traffickers? ... The Prime Minister was not correct.