Here’s the introduction to their must read piece by Laurence Cooper..
The PM is an honorary bencher. Some ‘do-gooder’ needs to put a stop to that, says mature law student and businessman Laurence Cooper
Not many masters of the bench of Middle Temple are famous for wanting to break the law. Boris Johnson is an exception.
I speak of the Internal Market Bill; a political device that was recently voted down by the House of Lords because it reveals such contempt for international law.
The bill alarmed the international community and caused legal sages, such as Lord Neuberger, to raise warning flags. He described the cavalier attitude of the UK government towards international treaties as “quite extraordinary” and “very worrying”.
Former Prime Minister Sir John Major, speaking at Middle Temple on 9 November, said the issue “cannot be ignored”. He described the bill as having a “corrosive impact on the reputation of English and Welsh jurisdiction”.
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