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Jo Maugham QC
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Owen Jones mounts his high horse again. Perhaps he has forgotten that Labour also refused to support two cross-party initiatives in Parliament to rule out No Deal? (And that Jeremy Corbyn lied about it.)
Who could blame Owen Jones for bubbling over with fury that Amber Rudd is prepared to cause immense harm to the national interest to serve narrow party interest? What extraordinary self-control it must take for him to say nothing when Jeremy Corbyn does exactly the same.
If Owen Jones is right that all Tory MPs are "poor-bashing, migrant-deporting, rich-benefiting" because "Amber Rudd" then surely all Labour MPs are anti-semites because "Chris Williamson"? Or maybe it's ok to throw stones if the glass house you live in is a "socialist" one?
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We at @GoodLawProject have instructed leading constitutional law Counsel in relation to the questions (1) whether a judicial review of advice given to the Queen to prorogue Parliament would succeed and (2) whether we could bring a JR now rather than waiting for that advice.
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