If ‘rule of law’ isn’t built into a deal, how can the deal be thought to be enforceable? Asking for a friend.
I met the dude myself.
I guess we're all going to have to expect unruliness to prevail.
Would the Gulf states even consider making the UK conform to Islamic morality as part of a trade agreement? The Western world seems to be unique in its insistence that other cultures adopt our morals, even though other cultures are presumably just as confident in the rightness of their own way of life.
Well, given their record, it would be rather hypocritical of the current UK government to demand these things from other governments.
The UK has a much better record than the Gulf States. They aren't perfect, but no country is.
this deal is being written today not 150 years ago.