I heard NI Secretary, Brandon Lewis, being interviewed on radio on Sunday morning, maintaining the government had received legal opinion that ditching the NI Protocol did not contravene international law. However, he refused to say where this legal opinion came from.
It was reported last week that James Eadie QC, the First Treasury Counsel, was consulted on the legality, but was specifically not asked to give an opinion.
During the interview, Lewis repeated the debunked lie that the UK was able to approve the Covid vaccine earlier than the EU because of Brexit, which is categorically not true. If he's prepared to make a bare-faced lie that he knows to be a lie in respect of this, then why should we believe anything coming from his mouth on the legality of trashing the NIP?
The Johnson kleptocracy staggers from one calamity of monumental incompetence to the next.
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