Activists who brought the case, including @JolyonMaugham, say they lodged it in the Scottish courts as England's High Court wasn't sitting in August.
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Sources in No10 now hitting back at the Scottish judges, suggesting they are politically biased: "We note that last week the High Court in London did not rule that prorogation was unlawful. The legal activists choose the Scottish courts for a reason".
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Justice Secretary now intervenes to disagree with sources in No10. Must also be said that not everyone in Downing Street agrees with suggestion that Scots judges might be biased, and a fairly heavy distancing is now underwayhttps://twitter.com/RobertBuckland/status/1171743709148454913?s=20 …
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Now the circle completes. The PM’s official spokesman also now contradicts No10 sources: “The Prime Minister has total confidence in the independence of the judiciary”. So that’s clear.
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Uh oh. While saying he believes judges are impartial, Business minister Kwazi Kwarteng tells
@afneil: "Many Leave voters up and down the country are beginning to question the impartiality of the judges. They’re saying, 'why are they getting involved in politics?'"Show this thread
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Executive vs Judiciary does not end well. Accusations of political bias are outrageous.
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Parliament itself had the normal measures available to it if it felt the government were behaving inappropriately - a vote of no confidence or a GE, and they refused to take them for their own political reasons. This is a political argument and doesn't belong in the courts.
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ah! blaming the Judges........that'll go down well.
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The Daily Mail probably compositing it’s headline now: ‘Traitors’.
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Johnson lied to the Queen. He’s not going to worry about lying to the rest of us.
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