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25 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Proud to be amongst many signatories to this letter today.

Power doesn’t entitle a govt to abuse our most vulnerable, or to endanger the lawyers who seek to protect their rights in law.

The govt’s language is irresponsible, inflammatory & dangerous.
theguardian.com/politics/2020/…
A copy of our letter, and the signatories, is here. Words matter. Consequences exist. The rule of law is our foundational principle. At the highest levels of govt, this doesn’t seem to matter.

defendlawyers.co.uk
With apologies to those asking if they can add their names, the organisers have relayed to me that it is unfortunately not possible. But it’s excellent to have your show of strong support here in spades against this shameful govt conduct.
I understand that lawyers who were unable to sign the letter can now do so by adding their names on the @defendlawyers TL below.

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Post-Grenfell, thousands of us still live in flammable homes, for which we were never responsible & are now liable for financial cost, untold stress & inability to move. The silence has been deafening, govt urgency lacking. End the hidden housing scandal.

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These highly unacceptable personal attacks on @elliereeves by the Attorney General are not befitting of her office.

She also seems to suggest "patriotism" fixes a failure to uphold the rule of law.

Dear Reader, it does not.

As the UK repeatedly reminds China, Belarus, Iran...
For the avoidance of doubt, the use of "emotional" when responding to a fair question on the rule of law by the shadow AG, a female MP & barrister, is intended as a put-down, not much different from "calm down, dear."

Whether that comes from a male or female MP, unacceptable.
I should add that there was nothing 'illogical' either about the q asked.

Many of us have been asking it. Many of us want to know how violating the rule of law - both international & domestic - can be supported by a Law Officer.
(See this on domestic.)
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Watching the PM in the Commons is, even with his track record, still jaw-dropping.

Apparently provisions overriding int’l & domestic law are to preserve “territorial integrity”.

How many States has his own govt criticised for claiming the same?
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It feels as if we stepped back into 2019.
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It’s almost as though it’s becoming a habit to bypass that sovereign parliament...
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