Bishop of Chelmsford speaks in Lord's debate on death penalty in Iraq

My Lords, I am sure that we all welcome the clarity of the Minister's response. Does he accept that, in a culture in which human life is treated with such contempt and there are such extraordinary levels of loss of life, this is deeply corrupting to the whole of Iraq's political culture? It is like a disease that spreads. Does he also accept that it is rather easier to dismantle human values than to reconstruct them? Read more