In a letter to Lord Cameron, Brendan O’Hara, the SNP’s foreign affairs spokesman said “one could argue that it needn’t take a ruling by a court to persuade a democratic, or morally sound, nation to take action to prevent genocide”, adding: “I hope that the Secretary of State will not need this letter to serve as a reminder of the legal obligations which now fall on the UK Government, legal obligations which should have been moral obligations three months ago.”
