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Re: Updated: Boris resigns as party leader
From the Daily Telegraph
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Suella Braverman bans lawyers from telling ministers their policies are unlawful
The Attorney General has banned government lawyers from telling ministers that their policies are unlawful, The Telegraph can reveal.
In the wake of the row over the Rwanda asylum plan, guidance was sent from Suella Braverman to lawyers last week stating that they should refrain from dismissing policies as unlawful and instead give a percentage chance that they may be challenged.
It is the culmination of more than a year of growing tensions, with policy advisors viewing lawyers as overly cautious. They perceive them to be getting in the way of the Government’s policy agenda instead of thinking creatively to push through ideas.
Lawyers, who are now describing it as the “U-word”, have hit back at the policy, describing it as an affront. "It calls into question our ability to hold the Government to account. What exactly is our role now?" one said. Others warned that ministers risked breaching international law and, in turn, the ministerial code.
The issue has come to a head at the Home Office. One government source said: “If we come and say we want something, they come back and say it is unlawful and we think there is a 70 per cent chance of losing. They don’t go: ‘Well, there is a 30 per cent chance a judge would find it lawful so we should go for it. There will be some who say it is unlawful because of x, y, z reasons rather than: ‘How can we make a legal argument that it is lawful’?”
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Originally Posted by Pierre
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Originally Posted by Hugh View Post
Conservative Party membership - 200,000
Trade Union membership - 6,440,000
Which is more representative of the British public?
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So 10% of the population isn’t more representative of the British public than 0.3% of the population, especially if "many of them are conservative anyway"?
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Last edited by Hugh; 30-07-2022 at 00:20.
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