Sunday 28 May 2023

What would Lord Denning say?

In a High Court ruling against the Attorney-General in January 1977 Lord Denning, in his distinctive Hampshire accent said: "To every subject of this land, however powerful, I would use Thomas Fuller's words over three hundred years ago, 'Be ye never so high, the law is above you'.." 

From Boris Johnson down, there has been a pattern of ministers in recent Tory governments putting themselves above the law, or at least from the ministerial code which provides an ethical framework for the conduct of government business. This web page cites 40, and that was before the accusation that Suella Braverman misused her civil servants at the Home Office.

Perhaps Tory candidate manifestos in future should contain the words: "Vote for me and against the rule of law".



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