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13 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
"Sue Gray is an immensely capable investigator but one has to recognise that two of the principal actors here – the PM and the cabinet secretary, effectively her bosses – are now deeply implicated in the inquiry." theguardian.com/politics/2022/…
If the Met was investigating you for a criminal offence they would not agree to suspend their enquiry because you told them 'don't worry, I have asked a subordinate to look into it.' So why have they agreed to do it for Johnson?
Sue Gray ought to say 'given the elevated public interest I cannot conduct a truly independent investigation into whether the Cabinet Secretary and PM have broken the law.' And kick the matter back to the Met which is, notionally, independent.
We will be issuing proceedings against the Met imminently. It is intolerable, offensive to the rule of law, for them nakedly to operate discrete criminal regimes, one for the elite and one for everyone else.

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12 Jan
The High Court has found that the Government's VIP lane - that channelled riches to its friends, donors and associates - was illegal. glplive.org/vip-lane-12012…
As regards the products supplied by the parties, the Court made, amongst others, the following findings. Pestfix's aprons:
More of Pestfix's aprons (Mr Jordan is International Sourcing Lead, PPE within the DHSC: see paragraph 103).
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11 Jan
I wonder how the hundred people who received the email reconciled their silence with public service?
I don't think one can talk of a conspiracy, exactly. But the reliability of the tacit understanding that politicians and, sad to say, civil servants will put self-interest before public interest is responsible for so much of what is wrong in England.
Imagine how much better a country we would be if politicians didn't know that they could break the law and feather their own nests with impunity?
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8 Jan
From Wes Streeting's refusal to pick a side I learned something quite important about his, and this Labour's, political philosophy: that however it styles itself, whatever language it speaks, it doesn't really have a thing it wants.
The effect of a philosophy that seeks to hold in balance conflicting forces, rather than choosing between them, is continuity and not change. In this sense, his, and this Labour's, philosophy is a conservative and not a dynamic one. I guess that's why Nick Robinson nodded along.
When asked about my ambition for Good Law Project I have quipped 'to diminish the speed at which the United Kingdom is declining?' His conservative Labour Party may be better for the nation than this radical Conservative Party but many of us want more for the country than that.
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6 Jan
The Guardian's brilliant investigations team has bottomed out the sleazy PPE Medpro deal. Well worth reading. theguardian.com/world/2022/jan…
There is one - for me - standout feature of the story and it is this: huge amounts of money were paid to those with political connections for help in winning contracts.
This is very far from the only such instance - similar points might be made about for example the £130 Pharmaceuticals Direct contracts (where we have a hearing in February) - and it raises this unanswerable question...
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6 Jan
Henceforth known as 'doing a Bethell'.
Perhaps it's obvious to others, but how does 'oh, it's on my other phone' explain how the Electoral Commission got the messages whilst Lord Geidt didn't?
Still, as we all know, Boris Johnson is truthful to a fault and this couldn't possibly be nonsense conjured from thin air.
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5 Jan
Next week we will publish advice from @RazaRazahusain and Eleanor Mitchell, instructed by @LeighDay_Law, on the removal of citizenship provision in the Nationality and Borders Bill.

In the meantime, I want to make some points about what that clause does. THREAD
The brilliant @WindrushLives account has tracked the extension over time of the power to remove citizenship but, as matters stand, the Home Secretary can remove citizenship if she is satisfied that doing so is "conducive to the public good". /1
That account has also explained how the power to remove citizenship can sometimes be exercised even if the consequence is that it will leave someone without citizenship of anywhere or "stateless". /2
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