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Suella Braverman just said to her conference: “Don’t get me started on the lawyers.” She qualified and practiced as a Barrister. She became AG, and head of the Bar. UK law is a beacon. It matters to so many people. An ex AG rubbishing it demonstrates terrible values.
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Tomorrow PM will instruct his MPs to block an investigation into whether he lied to the Commons. There is something fundamentally wrong with a system which allows the PM to mislead the commons deliberately and then block them investigating it. Elected dictatorship.
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This Press Conference is a terrible low for the rule of law in the UK.
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“Dominic Cummings broke the rules – the country can see that and it’s shocked the government cannot.”
Remark for which Emily Maitlis was reprimanded.
Barnard Castle outing was breach of the regs. To be trusted, BBC must be willing to assert truths even if denied by government.
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Kangaroo courts don’t allow defendant to be advised by best KC in England, paid for in full by state, with full opportunity to argue their case, before tribunal advised by and acting upon advice of Court of Appeal judge. Kangaroo no. Sour grapes yes.
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Jenrick says he takes his lead from the PM on whether Cummings broke the law. PM as judge on whether his chief adviser broke the law isn’t the way the rule of law works. It’s the most flagrant subversion of the law.
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Attorney General and Solicitor General voted to stop normal disciplinary process against Owen Patterson just as it was about to find him in breach. Flagrant breach of the rule of law. They are supposed to be law officers, with obligations to the law, not just government stooges.
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Attacking judges who find against them. Sacking civil servants who give advice they don’t like. Appointing courtier law officers. Breaking law when it suits them. Ignoring ministerial code. Now taking power to ban demos against them if they are too noisy. Elected dictators.
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Serco got the Test and Trace contract from the govt. Health Dept were told again and again to use local authority based arrangements. They didn’t listen. Health Minister, Edward Argar, used to work for Serco.
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Roger Gale, Conservative MP: if the PM denies in the Commons today there was a party, he will have mislead the house and that is a resigning matter. Yes.
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Home Sec wants to ban people who arrive in small boats from going to court to question any decisions she makes about them. Must be irritating for her to have to act lawfully, but the rule UK has stuck to for last 300 years is no-one is above the law. Sorry to be such a pest.
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Lord chancellor announced just now the end of the privatisation of the probation service. Years of increased reoffending, the government repeatedly warned by everyone it was a disastrous policy. We should cheer. Its a massive u turn.
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Williamson says Cummings has satisfied the PM he hasn’t broken the law, and that’s the end of the matter. A word with the PM and the law can be ignored. Will anybody in the government stand up for the law? The AG? The Lord Chancellor? The Cabinet Secretary? Anybody?
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£340k pay off to perm sec Priti Patel illegally forced out of his job. Towns Fund illegally skewed in favour of Tory constituencies. U.K. illegally about to break Northern Ireland Protocol. The better the polling, the more the govt thinks they can break the law.
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She tweeted in Cummins’ favour when he was being investigated by the Durham Police, she called critics of the law-breaking in the Internal markets Bill “unpatriotic”, and she has been completely silent on Partygate. Boris Johnson’s dream Attorney General.
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This is not right. AG should not be using her office to try to get a political adviser out of a whole. She has to give advice on legality, independent of party politics. Tweeting on this issue in this way suggests her legal views are influenced by politics.
Protecting one’s family is what any good parent does. The
@10DowningStreet
statement clarifies the situation and it is wholly inappropriate to politicise it.
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The Everard case is so shocking, the warning signs about Couzens so striking. The Met and the Govt have known for 7 months the horror was going to be made public. They have done nothing to begin to deal either with the failures revealed or the inevitable collapse in confidence.
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Michael Gove says govt won’t extend the transition period - he says its fixed in law. So when did that matter to this government?
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3 law officers in the govt the AG, Solicitor General and Advocate General, and also Lord Chancellor. Each of them has a duty to ensure compliance with law within govt. They have failed in this central duty. They offer no explanation. Voice of law in this government dead.
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Gove breathtaking in lack of humility over decision of Supreme Court. Disagrees with result, and, whilst govt will comply with judgment, asserts it was wrong. Johnson and Gove know better than Supreme Court. Arrogance on that scale is riding for fall after fall.
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The letter I’ve just sent to the Attorney General seeking her assurance that she will stand by the law, not by whatever instructions she gets from no 10. The criminal law is optional for the senior members of the government with a compliant AG.
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They wrote references for MP convicted of sex offence. They wanted to keep that secret. They tried to get senior judges to pressure the trial judge to keep it secret. They assumed judges do what Tory MPs tell them. Judges don’t. Thank goodness.
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Attorney General has replied to my letter. I sought assurances she would uphold the rule of law, in the light of her tweeting in favour of accepting Cummings' account. She gives no assurance. Instead she gives a disingenuous account of her earlier tweet.
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Govt confirmed will change law so can ignore injunctions from European Court of Justice restraining UK govt action. Independent Ethics Adviser may not be replaced. Judicial Review Act now allows courts to ignore past breaches of law by government on JR. Trend is clear.
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Lords just blocked govt’s attempt in Elections Bill to allow govt to set Electoral Commission’s priorities. To allow the Political party which controls govt to set agenda of independent referee of elections is appalling. Tories trying to dismantle most basic legal protections.
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Woolfson nails it. Lord Chancellor, Attorney General, Advocate General, Solicitor General, all shamefully, cravenly, humiliatingly, weakly, silent. Each one of them has a duty to stand up for the rule of law, which means resigning unless PM goes.
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Attacking uncompliant judges,sacking civil servants who give unwanted advice, appointing courtier law officers,espousing law breaking, ignoring breaches of min code,illegally dispensing billions of £s on party political grounds. Elected dictatorship, governing for its supporters.
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Trip to Barnard Castle makes no sense and is unlawful. Earlier dilemma faced by Cummings family faced by other families - parent/s get ill, might be childcare problems. Cummings not exceptional. Had to do their best, with help from volunteers and state. Not a reasonable excuse.
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Say an absolute No to allowing jury trials to be replaced by judge and two magistrates. Terrible reduction in the diversity of who makes the decisions about guilt or innocence. Covid bad enough for BAME communities. Don’t make it worse.
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It is so important that the law is obeyed. To use all the pressure of the state to ensure the Bristol demonstrators are prosecuted and Dominic Cummings is not leaves the most profound sense there is not equality before the law. That matters.
Another day, another story demonstrating that the Home Secretary doesn’t understand the basics of criminal law.
It is not for politicians to dictate that individuals “face criminal prosecution”. A decision to prosecute is taken independently by the CPS or police.
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Sunak should comply with Hallett’s order. He and Johnson are behaving exactly alike - taking awful legal points, ignoring rules and orders they don’t like, justifying their conduct in hypocritical rhetoric. Patterson/Partygate/Covidgate. This shameful lawless government.
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Nicky Morgan has said on Breakfast TV, just now, that the reason for the 5 week prorogation was to prepare for the Queen’s Speech. It obviously wasn’t. You don’t need parliament not sitting to prepare the speech. You need a few days to prepare the Lords chamber.
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Hancock said they might review fines on families who traveled during the lockdown for childcare reasons. Govt appear to be willing to change direction in what the guidelines mean to save Cummings. Looking after each other not the country.
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Happy New Year To All those Lawyers, Lefties, and Do-gooders who fight the good fight every day. Without you legal protection would be meaningless and the state could do exactly what it likes.
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Developer persuaded Jenrick who he met at donor dinner to fast track planning permission illegally. Truss advisor facilitated govt contract for sale of unusable face masks with coys in which he had interest. These sleazy deals absolutely stink. So does this govt.
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PM lawyer bashing again in PMQs today. I understand that. Obviously his problem is the law. He’s PM now. He thought he was above the law. Have I Got news For You.
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If she thinks tweeting out in favour of a law breaker in mid police investigation at the request of the Tory Whips doesn’t undermine legal process she hasn’t grasped the basics of her job.
Attorney general says it's 'absurd' to claim her pro-Cummings tweet undermined legal process -
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Judges to be neutered, civil service cowed, now the Electoral Commission to be gutted. Tories re-writing our unwritten constitution to get rid of as many restraints on their actions as possible.
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Every decision PM now makes will be geared to avoid 32 Tory MPs switching from pro to anti PM. Once he loses those 32 more, he is gone. The scramble to keep those 32 will make the quality of government, already dire, even worse.
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Govt excluding debate on new anti protest laws. Introduced 18 pages of new law, after Commons stages and second reading in Lords complete. Whole Lords committee stage debate on new clauses crammed into one late night. Commons excluded, Lords marginalised, Parl neutralised.
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BBC, Church of England, Supreme Court of the UK. Disagree with their views, but respect them. Boris Johnson has abused the huge platform he has as PM to disrespect each one of these institutions. The strength of our institutions cannot endure a PM undermining them for long.
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“Those defending the broken system - traffickers, do-gooders, lefty lawyers, Labour Party - are defending the indefensible" Priti Patel. Treating lawyers, Labour Party and do gooders (like Alf Dubbs) same as traffickers indicates Home Sec willing to say anything for headline
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Things ministers have direct control over - lockdown timings, quarantining laws, test and trace, PPE procurement - have gone badly. Things NHS have direct control over eg vaccinations have gone brilliantly. Hancock’s reforms propose more ministerial control over NHS. V bad idea.
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Lord Chancellor should put a stop to this nonsense immediately. Upholding the rule of law means ensuring government does not attack the judges for decisions the government doesn’t alike. Appeal if you don’t like it, don’t undermine the judges as if they were politicians.
Sources in No10 now hitting back at the Scottish judges, suggesting they are politically biased: "We note that last week the High Court in London did not rule that prorogation was unlawful. The legal activists choose the Scottish courts for a reason".
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Very disappointing to hear Oliver Dowden saying he does not accept PM did mislead the House. There is no dispute, 30+ FPNs later, PM did mislead the House by saying no breaches of Covid Laws in no 10. The only issue is whether he did it deliberately.
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The UK PM criticised the Australian Cricket Team for tampering with the cricket ball. She has not criticised the US government for child separation policy.
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The government today just amended an absolute duty on it contained in an Act of Parliament by a motion in the Commons. They did not amend the Act. They simply used their Commons majority to override the law.
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Yesterday government by executive decree passed regs to make the changes to lockdown. Those regulations could have been debated and voted on by Commons, but govt decided they were too urgent. They weren’t. They could have been debated yesterday. Careful about democracy.
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Yelling at the Leader of the Opposition across an empty Commons chamber is a worrying thing for the Health Secretary to be doing at this moment in our history. It’s quite important government listen to those who question them, not abuse them.
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Red Alert: Raab’s proposals, just published, are serious attack on individual protection in two main ways - aim to make balance between state power and individual rights much more in favour of state power, and to make exercise of court protection by individuals more difficult.
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There is no basis in fact identified in this story for the assertion the EU helped draft the Benn Act. There is no basis identified in the story in fact or law which could justify any official investigation. No 10 and the Mail on Sunday have produced a baseless smear.
🚨NO10 LAUNCH ‘FOREIGN COLLUSION’ PROBE INTO REMAINER PLOTTING WITH FRANCE 🚨
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PM says Inquiry should be conducted with transparency & candour. Then refuses to hand over ex-PM’s mgs. Then COffice says don’t have them. Then Johnson says happy to hand over material. Then not handed over. Hypocrisy and incompetence beyond belief.
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Elect Commission loses independence - Elections Act, UK breaks refugee convention - Immigration etc Act, protests can be banned if too noisy - Police etc Act. All passed yesterday. All at odds with constitution. Steamrollered through with 80 seat majority. Elected dictatorship.
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We lost the invitation to the EU PPE procurement scheme, said HMG originally. No, says Hancock today, I said yes to the scheme. Were we in the scheme or not? Was Hancock overruled? Who by?
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We are putting a huge amount of money into the Criminal Justice System, says PM. They have cut expenditure on Justice by 40%, and have announced no plans to increase expenditure except on prisons. Nothing on courts, probation, legal aid or prosecution.
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She’s not going to introduce the EU Withdrawal Bill because she would be defeated. She’s not going to do a deal with Labour. She is not talking at all to the EU. She has no programme apart from Brexit. And she has nowhere to go on Brexit. Clinging on for what?
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Govt retaking power to decide date of general election. Constituency boundaries to be redrawn to favour Tories. Govt propose expenditure limits for general election be increased to £33m per party. Not a level playing field for next election.
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Courts will reject this hopeless challenge. Unarguably for Inquiry not Cab Off to decide relevance. Courts will only interfere if her judgment patently wrong. It obviously is not. Attitude of Sunak govt they know best is so telling, and so misplaced.
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Judges, civil servants, BBC now the Commons Standards Committee - dismantled, sacked or vilified because they attack or don’t do the bidding of Conservatives. A bullying government with no respect for the rule of law.
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Cabinet Secretary and Perm Under Sec at Foreign Office fired without replacement. Both still in office but without authority. Mid pandemic the effectiveness of the state hugely weakened. Profoundly unwise.
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The AG said in the Commons she proudly supported the Internal Markets Bill, and to oppose it is to undermine the UK. An AG who proudly supports lawbreaking.
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Sun published story about Ben Stokes’ family in which he is blameless, causing unimaginable pain. Sun told Gareth Thomas’ parents of his HIV status. Mail published private letter between Meghan and her father, causing her immense pain. Leveson changed nothing.
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Cummings hectoring journalists to comply with the guidelines, cabinet ministers undermining the guidelines and their credibility by advancing bogus explanations of them, Attorney General abandoning constitutional impartiality on enforcement of the law. Our current government.
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PM now wholly devoted to his own survival. Group of ideological Tory MPs back in the driving seat as Johnson gets the same medicine as he dished out to May. It will finish him too sooner rather than later. Meanwhile good government goes to pot.
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R Jenrick suggesting UK might leave ECHR, L Chancellor attacking lawyers acting lawfully in challenging govt action they disagree with, Home Sec blaming lefty lawyers for immigration failures. Deliberate undermining of law and lawyers by government. There will be consequences.
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Met said: “If significant evidence suggesting breach of regs becomes available, officers may review and consider it." On 20/5, regs prohibited more than 2 people meeting unless “essential” for work. 20/5 gathering not essential for work. Pm admits going. What more required?
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If you sack Perm Secs cos they disagree with your first messed up policy, stop judges from ruling if it causes you embarrassment, grant planning permission to people you met at dinner and buy PPE from pol advisers, U turns are going to get more frequent.
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Theresa May could not communicate or lead, BJ could not tell the truth, Liz Truss has no judgment. The Tory pool looks like it doesn’t have a PM in it.
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Jonathan Jones impressive lawyer and very decent person. Loyal civil servant . If he can’t stay in the public service, there must be something very rotten about this government. Reckless, law breaking, trashing the best of the UK.
BREAKING on
@ft
online
The head of the UK’s government legal department has quit over suggestions that Boris Johnson is trying to row back on parts of last year’s Brexit deal relating to Northern Ireland.
via
@financialtimes
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Home Secretary pretended there was a pushback policy against asylum seekers in the channel when, as courts discovered, there never was. Without lawyers and courts the lies would never be discovered. No wonder Home Secretary and PM rage at the lawyers.
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Robert Jenrick refuses to provide relevant documents on Westferry, and fails to come to the Commons to explain. Tory MPs ask irrelevant questions to reduce information obtained in Chamber. Jenrick will understand this conduct builds sense the bias was real not just apparent.
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Friday’s press conference completely overshadowed by her interview just now with Chris Mason. No explanation for the economic catastrophe. No plan. No empathy. No understanding. No energy. No ability to explain. No leadership. Nothing.
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One who whipped to let Patterson off leader of House, one who wanted names of all lecturing on Brexit at universities Chief Whip, and one whose company set up fund in Dublin to avoid uncertainty in U.K. post-Brexit i/c Brexit opportunities. The Nolan Principles Reshuffle.
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Electoral Integrity Bill requires everyone to bring photo ID to be allowed to vote. 11m citizens have neither passport or driving licence, 3.5m don’t have any photo id. Breach of law, blatantly partisan. Mess with electoral system and you fundamentally undermine democracy.
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Matt Hancock hurt that people are upset at being asked to go 273 miles for a corona test. He explains that “obviously “ if your nearest test centre is busy you will be sent to the next closest with capacity. It’s the human understanding of this government which impresses.
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Letting Cummings off with breaches of lockdown laws, fast tracking planning permission to Tory donor illegally, placing contracts with companies in which govt advisers has interest despite obvious conflict. Only law or an election will protect us from this govt’s sleaze.
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Be under no illusion. There is a breach of article 4 and 5 of the Withdrawal Agreement by passing the Bill. Brandon Lewis acknowledged that. Bob Neil’s amendment can place a parliamentary lock on further breaches of international law. But it does not prevent the breach.
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Sir Alex Allen resigned in December 2020 as PM’s Independent Adviser on Ministerial Interests when PM rejected his finding of bullying against Home Sec. PM hasn’t bothered to replace Allen. PM couldn’t care less about ethical standards of his ministers.
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No election before 31/10. Extension Bill forces Boris to sign and send the request on 21/10 assume no deal. He must sign and send it, resign, or face court orders requiring him to sign and send it, in default of which he is in contempt with prison as one means of enforcement.
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We're restoring confidence in the justice system, says the Lord Chancellor. He’s got a nerve.
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Jenrick gave privileged access to the developer, and responded to his pressure via this privileged access to bring the application to the head of the queue. Improper, unlawful. One law for billionaire Tory donors, another for everybody else.
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Delighted to be Shadow AG in
@Keir_Starmer
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No, Robert. Backbone not fudge. You are the senior lawyer in England and Wales. You have to stand up for the law. Its being broken. You have to say No to the government.
Justice Secretary
@RobertBuckland
tells
#KayBurley
he will consider his position if the UK is found to have broken international law in "a way that cannot be fudged" but adds he does not believe the country is "at that stage"
Read the latest here:
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When asked did govt know how many of 25k transferred from hospital to care homes had Virus Hancock said no because some would have been asymptomatic. Even if asymptomatic a test would have diagnosed the virus. He can’t bring himself to admit there was no tests.
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Question:How has PPE problem arisen? Jenrick: Doing all we can. 84 tons is coming from Turkey including 300,O00 gowns. Some SMEs are manufacturing them now. ITN: name some SMEs. He doesn’t respond. ITN: 300,000 gowns is 3 days. He doesn’t respond. Good questions, bad answers.
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Therese Coffey, this morning, didn’t deny PM was a systematic liar. She dismissed the allegation as trivia. Which explains why govt is so hopeless on all areas of domestic policy. Ministers have nothing to fear whether corrupt, hopeless or dishonest. There are no standards.
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Govt approach to criminal justice coming home to roost - lots of new criminal offences, no more prison places, no more courts to try them, no police to arrest them, and catastrophic reductions in prosecution of violence against women and girls.
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From the govt which sought names and addresses of academics who spoke against Brexit....
Universities must promote free speech and open minds, Universities Minister Jo Johnson says
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A future where UK break its international law obligations, and opts out of Human Rights protections is a very bad future. Respected and trusted, or international pariah? Do not underestimate how quickly UK’s standing as a country who plays by the rules can go through the floor.
Sunday's Telegraph: "Johnson set to opt out of human rights law"
#BBCPapers
#TomorrowsPapersToday
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Cabinet secretary fired like a junior minister, AG a pliant flunkey, planning permission handed out like prize at a fund raiser. Judges stand up to govt, so their powers are going to be curbed asap. Only law restrains this awful govt. Stand up for the judges.
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A bit rich for PM to complain about the “erosion of liberties” when he wants to break all the checks and balances on the government. That is the way to erode our liberties.
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Williamson’s decision to force 8 London boroughs to open schools was irrational, capricious, in breach of statutory duty and one which no reasonable Minister could have taken. It would have been quashed by courts. There is, currently, legal protection against ministers like him.
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A civil servant within Jenrick’s dept says he showed “total disregard” for the law in Westferry decision. Ministers take planning decisions in a quasi judicial capacity - law not personal relationships determine outcomes. Except with Jenrick. Tory Developers not Law now rule.
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“There’s no question, none, that President Trump is practically, and morally, responsible for provoking the events of the day,” McConnell said, having just voted to acquit. There is no question, none, that politicians like McConnell are the reason politicians are so despised.
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The s35 Statement of Reasons has now been published. It identifies 3 sets of reasons why the Sec of State considers the GRR Bill would have an adverse effect on the operation of reserved matter law namely equal opportunities.
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Those who regulate the broadcasters now taken over by cheer leaders of this govt. Civil service have had their leadership removed. Those who defend the law within govt silenced or forced to resign. An incompetent sleazy government weakens another check and balance.
BREAKING: Boris Johnson has asked former Mail editor Paul Dacre to run thr broadcasting watchdog Ofcom. Charles Moore is close to a done deal to be BBC chairman
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The whole point of rule of law is we are governed by laws not at the mercy of strongest. Regimes without rule of law attack their enemies and protect their friends. Commons is not subject to courts, so has own laws on conduct. Yesterday govt used its majority to crush the law.
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Watermelon smiles, piccanninies, breaking the 0.7% promise, breaking the law, attacking those who take the knee, post boxes. There is an odour coming from under the Tory Party door. There is easily a majority in this country which hates that odour.
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The best lawyers tell their clients what the law is, the worst lawyers tell their clients what they want to hear. It is undermining beyond words that the AG champions the worst.
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Tory benches roar with laughter when Ian Blackford seeks an assurance from the PM that he will comply with the law or resign. The rule of law is now a joke to most Tory MPs.
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