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Jo Maugham QC @JolyonMaugham
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This paragraph appeared in the Government's paper on the future relationship between the UK and the EU. It explained how committing to a common rulebook would not clog Parliamentary sovereignty because our Parliament could just ignore its international law obligations. 1/3
What I'm wondering is this: does Geoffrey Cox's legal advice contain an equivalent paragraph? Is that how Ministers get comfortable with the idea of committing to a backstop in the Withdrawal Agreement?

If so, what happens to negotiations if the legal advice gets released? 2/3
That would explain why both committed Remainers and ERG types want to see the legal advice released: it would blow the negotiations apart by confirming (for a second time) that the UK could not be trusted as a reliable, good faith negotiating partner. 3/3
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Wrong on virtually every count.

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There's a perfectly sensible case for a Party leader making policy from on high. But it's pretty grim watching smart folk on the Left demean themselves trying to pretend that's not what Corbyn is doing.
Question for all those folks insisting member-led democracy was served because delegates got to vote on a motion: why didn't they get to vote on whether Labour should commit to a referendum given how over 100 constituencies and at least three quarters of members wanted one?
It's a free country. Subscribe to whatever delusion makes you happy. Just don't expect anyone whose head is screwed on such that their nose and toes point in the same direction to join you in it.
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Only 29% of judges in England and Wales are women. Fewer than 1% are "black or black British".
theguardian.com/law/2019/jan/0…
Of the 1,360 odd *salaried* (ie full-time, permanent) judges in England and Wales the number who are "black or black British" is 7. That's right, about half of one percent.
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