Interview: Jonathan Jones breaching the EU deal “would be disastrous”
The former head of the government legal service resigned when No 10 threatened to break an international treaty. With the difficult reality of Brexit now upon us, I asked whether we risk a repeat offence
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The UK government is having a crash course in the strictures of international agreements. Last year No 10 panicked that it had signed up to unacceptable commitments and threatened to break international law rather than implement them. The offending provisions of the Internal Market Bill were eventually withdrawn after further talks with the EU, but not before the resignation of the government’s most senior legal official, who was later followed by the law officer for Scotland.
By Press Association 2021
Stuart Lubbock
The father of a man found dead in Michael Barrymore’s swimming pool nearly 20 years ago wants a coroner to oversee a new inquest.
Terry Lubbock, whose 31-year-old son Stuart was found in a swimming pool following a party at Mr Barrymore’s then-home in Roydon, Essex, on March 31 2001, thinks information must have emerged which justifies a fresh inquiry by a coroner.
A coroner recorded an open verdict after an inquest in 2002 and two years ago the then-attorney general, Jeremy Wright, refused to give Mr Lubbock the go-ahead to make an application to the High Court for a second inquest.