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Chris Hinchliff

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Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 1138open

Withdrawal from Investor-State Dispute Settlement Treaties

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 10 November 2026

That this House expresses deep concern that UK-based Cadence Minerals and REM Mexico are suing Mexico over its nationalisation of lithium, undermining the right of Mexican communities and their democratically elected government to determine how their country’s natural resources are used; opposes Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) mechanisms, which empower private corporations to sue governments for decisions taken in the public interest; highlights how ISDS rigs international law in favour of super-rich investors, granting them a unique legal weapon unavailable to ordinary citizens, chilling democratic decision-making and forcing states to bear unrecoverable legal costs; notes that UK-headquartered Shell has launched a claim against the Netherlands following the closure of a gas field, while investors in the quashed Cumbria coal mine are taking legal action against the UK Government; affirms that private corporations hold no absolute right to a nation’s natural resources, nor should international arbitration protect fossil fuel interests that are driving climate catastrophe and threatening living standards for millions in Britain and billions around the world; and therefore calls on the Government to work with international partners to withdraw from treaties containing ISDS provisions and establish new international frameworks that uphold popular sovereignty, human dignity and the future of our planet over corporate profit.

Motion· Early Day MotionEDM 900open

Charter for Community Rights

United Kingdom · UK Parliament · 12 October 2026

That this House supports the Charter for Community Rights, recognising that decades of treating the essentials of a decent life as commodities to be sold for profit rather than as public goods meant where private profit collided with well-being it was communities which lost out including through corner-cutting on housing developments or the chipping away of green spaces to increase shareholder profits; therefore declares its support for seven community rights, a right to a clean and healthy environment, a right to a healthy home, a right to play, a right to grow food on public sector land, a right to roam and swim, a right to participate in local decisions which shape communities, and a right to challenge local decisions which affect people's lives; believes these rights must be immovable and non-negotiable safeguards of the foundations of a decent life; recognises that the rapidly changing climate brings these rights into sharper focus, making it essential to climate-proof communities so that rising temperatures do not mean declining living standards; notes that these rights must precede mechanisms for a meaningful say for communities in placemaking, including over the proliferation of AI data centres; and calls on the Government to implement the Charter.