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NB: leaking the advice of the Law Officers is a serious matter. Leon Brittan had to resign during the Westland affair in 1986 for having done so.
NB2: the leak is convenient for Johnson and those advising him. A cynic would remember that the ship of state is the only ship that leaks from the top.
NB3 - and most importantly- it’s a breach of the Ministerial Code (2018).
NB4: Breach of the Ministerial Code means (or should mean) resignation or sacking.
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Absolutely. “Surrender Act” is a gross and deliberate lie. The Benn Burt Act surrenders precisely nothing to the EU. It is about who takes the decisions on the U.K. side: Johnson on his own, or the House of Commons?
That point is additional to the critical point that “surrender” is the language of war. There is no war.
And it is not “surrender” to refrain from a self-destructive act that simply postpones the necessary compromises with the EU.
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Any plausible definition of “elites” includes the Professor of Politics, Philosophy and Law at King’s College, London.
That may seem snarky: but the key point is that anyone who blames “elites” needs to be pinned down as to precisely who they mean and precisely what those people should have done and didn’t.
If they can’t or won’t do that (and Tasoulias’ tweet didn’t do that) then it’s simply adding to the crisis and dysfunction of our politics rather than making any contribution to solving them.
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Many reasons why it’s not good at all. But the narrow legal one is that the last 45 seconds of this extraordinary scene is - and I don’t say this sort of thing lightly - a straightforward and blatant lie by Johnson.
The Benn Act does not give the EU the power to decide how long the extension is. The House of Commons remains in control.
As to the rest of this vile and deeply shocking performance by Johnson, I cannot hope to improve on @stephenkb.
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