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A second short thread on the Government’s proposed amendments to the Internal Market Bill — this time looking at what is said about judicial review. /… Clause 45 contains what

The Government has published its proposed amendments to the Internal Market Bill in order to give effect to the so-called climb down that is intended to placate sufficient Conservative MPs.

By my reckoning, the Government has so far attempted in five ways to justify clauses 42 and 43 of the Internal Market Bill, which, if enacted, would allow Ministers to

This preposterous. A short thread on why — and what the fact that the Government is advancing this argument might tell us. /…https://twitter.com/andrewsparrow/status/1305857243502596097 The Salisbury convention can only conceivably bite

The new coronavirus regulations for England were published a few minutes before they entered into force and without any parliamentary scrutiny. @MattHancock said they were ‘super-simple’. They’re not — and