"They have wasted millions of taxpayers' money fighting me."
Under the contested statute, individuals can face up to five years in prison for consensual same-sex actions, a penalty that Jones argues creates severe systemic harm.
"It dehumanises LGBTQ+ people. It makes us both a criminal and a victim at the same time," he said.
Jones remains optimistic about the final judgment.
"The privy council will never uphold a 500-year-old homophobic piece of British law that goes against the rights of the individual.
Not in 2026," he said. "I know I'm on the right side of history."
Leo Varadkar, the former Irish taoiseach and current global LGBTQI and human rights fellow at Harvard University, pointed out that the only five countries in the Americas continuing to outlaw homosexuality share a history of British administration.
He highlighted the contradiction of former colonies maintaining legal structures that the UK discarded long ago.
In a research paper published for Harvard, Varadkar wrote: "From Canada in the north to Chile in the south, homosexuality has been long since been decriminalised in the 35 countries that make up the Americas" apart from Jamaica, Guyana, St Vincent and the Grenadines, Trinidad and Tobago, and Grenada.
"All are anglophone and formerly part of the British empire. This is not a coincidence."
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Varadkar added that the presiding UK judges are fully aware that core human rights, including bodily autonomy and the right to privacy, are firmly protected under modern British law.
