Yup.
The statement is part of one of the founding treaties of the European Union. The bill transposing current EU law into UK domestic law is exactly where it should be.
The statement they were being asked to transpose was already about the most anodyne statement on the issue it’s possible to imagine since it leaves full room for kosher and halal slaughtering, fox hunting, bull fighting, the “running of the bulls” and any other sort of cultural or religious practice.
If they’re not prepared to include that, what would they agree to?
