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Sebastian Payne
@SebastianEPayne
Collision symbol SCOOP from Team FT: Jonathan Jones, head of the Government Legal Department, is quitting after a major spat over suggestions Boris Johnson will challenge the Brexit Withdrawal Agreement.

He's the 6th senior Whitehall figure to resign this year.

David Henig
@DavidHenigUK
Brexit will never stop while a large group of Conservative MPs think breaching international law by denouncing a treaty they themselves voted for is something that most other nations would respect.

Adam Schwarz
@AdamJSchwarz
Brandon Lewis confirms the Government will break international law on EU Withdrawal Deal:

"Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way".

RogerOThornhill wrote:

Adam Schwarz
@AdamJSchwarz
Brandon Lewis confirms the Government will break international law on EU Withdrawal Deal:

"Yes, this does break international law in a very specific and limited way".

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Lot of people who have spent the summer defending the tearing down of statues, street disorder in the US and the blockading of printing presses suddenly seem exercised about the rule of law.
12:33 PM · Sep 8, 2020·Twitter Web App

Dethnutz
@Dethnutz1
Wyoming, 85 at 11 am yesterday, this today...

2:36 pm · 8 Sep 2020
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Guy Walton
@climateguyw
10h
Oh dear. Here comes the front from hell.
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The men charged were all directors of G4S’s care and justice services division, which ran an electronic monitoring contract with the Ministry of Justice for tagging and tracking offenders. They were: Richard Morris, former managing director of the unit; Mark Preston, former commercial director of the electronic monitoring business; and James Jardine, former finance manager and acting commercial director of the electronic monitoring business.

citizenJA wrote:'why flouting international law is bad news for Boris Johnson'

...the number of deaths registered was 9.6% above the five-year average (791 deaths higher); this is the third consecutive week that weekly deaths have been above the five-year average, however, the rise was not driven by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

The number of deaths in hospitals was below the five-year average in Week 35, while the number of deaths in private homes, care homes and other locations was above the five-year average.
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The number of deaths involving COVID-19 decreased across the majority of the English regions, however all regions had higher overall deaths than the five-year average.

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AnatolyKasparov wrote:

citizenJA wrote:'why flouting international law is bad news for Boris Johnson'

There does actually seem to be some Tory pushback against what has happened today.

So yes, it could yet (non-ironically) be.

RogerOThornhill wrote:

(((Dan Hodges)))
@DPJHodges
Lot of people who have spent the summer defending the tearing down of statues, street disorder in the US and the blockading of printing presses suddenly seem exercised about the rule of law.
12:33 PM · Sep 8, 2020·Twitter Web App

Yes, yes, the very same people!

Taking down one statue which hardly anyone outside Bristol knew was even there is now equivalent to standing up in Parliament and telling the world that we intend to break international law.

Dearie me, what a fool.

citizenJA wrote:ruthless comments from Starmer today
I'm pleased
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AnatolyKasparov wrote:

citizenJA wrote:ruthless comments from Starmer today
I'm pleased
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"He IsN't OpPoSiNg ThE gOvErNmEnT", though!

But in the event of no deal, the government would not escape all state aid regulation. The UK would remain bound by World Trade Organization anti-subsidy rules, meaning the EU could impose tariffs on British goods if it believed UK subsidies were harming European industry.

Even the government’s “Australia-style” agreement (in reality, no deal) comes with state-aid strings attached.

But there are many exemptions. In recent years, the EU has relaxed state aid thresholds for “innovation clusters”, broadband, culture and heritage, small and medium-sized companies and local infrastructure. During the coronavirus outbreak and 2008 financial crisis, EU state aid rules were eased to allow emergency bailouts and job-protection subsidies.

As an EU member state, the British government took little advantage of flexibilities: in 2018, the UK spent 0.38% of GDP on state aid, compared with 0.79% in France, 1.45% in Germany and 1.55% in Denmark.

Laura Kuenssberg
@bbclaurak
Former Chancellor objects to Govt using his actions as evidence for why it’s ok to break international law... quite a day
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Govt going into this knowing it will provoke outrage - they won’t be surprised that their critics + enemies are surprised
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But plenty on their own side won’t be willing to brush aside the fact they are willing to breach international law, admitting as much in the Commons, however many shades of legal opinion there are (again, let’s remember still the actual text of the bill is not public)
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gilsey wrote:In this case 'shades of legal opinion' seem to be in rather short supply, it's an open and shut case m'lud.

Laura K scraping the bottom of the barrel.

adam wrote:A second senior law officer - the director general of the attorney general's office - has resigned today. The government claim it was part of a planned restructuring.

Property Spotter
@PropertySpot
Margaret Thatcher: "You cannot have freedom without the rule of law. If you don't have it, what you tend to get is corruption and that is death to freedom, it's death to truth, it's death to honour, it's death to democracy."

Arthur Snell
@SnellArthur
I have literally spent the past 18 months working on a book on how, in subtle and insidious ways, Britain has undermined international norms and laws and then it just goes and does it blatantly.

Thanks guys