"Why should my gay friends in Belfast be denied the right to marry each other if they wish to do so while my gay friends in London can exercise that right?”, Alistair Lexden asked during oral questions in the Lords on November 18.
There are other examples of inequity. The important new rights introduced in England and Wales through the Defamation Act 2013 are also unavailable in Northern Ireland, as Alistair Lexden has pointed out on earlier occasions.
There is clear recognition in the Lords that such obvious unfairness is wholly unsatisfactory.
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