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Your support makes all the difference.The justice secretary has suggested he could resign if the government passes Brexit legislation that flouts international law.
Robert Buckland said on Sunday that if the Internal Markets Bill broke the law in a way he found “unacceptable” he would stand down, but insisted that “we are not at that stage”.
Meanwhile, writing in the Sunday Times, former prime ministers Tony Blair and Sir John Major, accused Boris Johnson of “embarrassing” the UK with the bill, which is due to be introduced to the Commons on Monday, also claiming he was putting both trade negotiations and the Irish peace process at risk.
Liberal Democrats are planning a four-year drive to woo “soft conservatives” repulsed by the “thuggish” values of the Tories under Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings, the party’s new campaigning chief has revealed.
Speaking to The Independent in an interview to announce her election as deputy to leader Sir Ed Davey, Daisy Cooper said that the route out of the Lib Dems’ current electoral trough lay through appealing to voters who had always thought of themselves as conservatives but found the current government at odds with their values of competent governance, respect for the law, international alliances, civil liberties and protection of the environment.
Mr Johnson’s current threat to breach Britain’s obligations under international treaty law in his row with the EU was the latest in a chain of shocking acts which showed his party no longer represented the values of moderate voters, she said.
Andrew Woodcock reports:
Liberal Democrats plan to woo ‘soft conservatives’ repulsed by ‘thuggish’ Johnson Tories
Mea culpa
Whenever he can, Boris Johnson likes to display just how much Latin he actually knows but Gordon Brown has accused him of not knowing two words in the language: “mea culpa”, meaning “my fault”.
Speaking on Good Morning Britain on Friday, the former prime minister took a swipe at Mr Johnson over the government's many u-turns and refusal to accept responsibility when things go wrong,
Most recently, the government has faced a wave of criticism for suggesting it might override part of the Brexit deal which could result in the UK breaking international laws.
Mr Brown told Ben Shepard and Kate Garraway that this will be a 'mistake' on Johnson's behalf before mocking him over his apparent love of Latin.
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