Important part of this story: plan to pass more legislation breaching international law. ft.com/content/8c5330…
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References to “extreme” interpretations here means “interpretations we don’t like” and “interpretations we don’t like but which are upheld by the dispute resolution mechanisms we agreed to”.
Importantly, given Monday’s developments, putting the new law-breaking provisions in a Finance Bill means the House of Lords has no say (assuming that the Bill is kept within the definition of a “money Bill” in section 1 of the Parliament Act 1911.
Not clear that Johnson explained all this to the President-elect on the call.
No10 might consider, before doubling down on this hare-brained and unconscionable plan, Denis Healey’s first law of holes. When in one, stop digging.
And another example of what he says being in flat contradiction to what he does.
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