Boris Johnson takes on the judges
The government wants to restrict the power of the judiciary. It shouldn’t
IN SEPTEMBER LAST year, when the Supreme Court overruled a government attempt to suspend Parliament during the Brexit negotiations, Boris Johnson called the decision “unusual”, but a source from Number 10 was franker: the court had made “a serious mistake in extending its reach into these political matters”. Payback, it seems, is coming. Mr Johnson has appointed a new attorney-general, Suella Braverman, who has made clear her enthusiasm for curbing the judiciary’s power (see article).
This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Boris v the judges”
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