Government moves to ban councils from imposing their own boycotts has faced opposition from Conservative benches.
Backed by communities secretary Michael Gove, the Bill is designed to ‘prevent local authorities from singling out individual nations for discriminatory treatment on the basis of an ideological opposition to that nation’.
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