Defeated measure aimed to give high court more power to protect minorities such as China’s Uighurs

The government has narrowly defeated a move requiring the government to reconsider any trade deal with a country found by the high court to be committing genocide.

The measure, backed by religious groups and a powerful cross-party alliance of MPs, was defeated by 319 to 308.

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