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  Amal Clooney quits UK envoy role over 'lamentable' Brexit bill

  

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  Exclusive: Prominent human rights lawyer writes to foreign secretary with stinging denunciationAmal Clooney, the high-profile human rights lawyer, has resigned from her position as the UK’s special envoy on media freedom in protest at the government’s intention to breach international law through the internal market bill.In a stinging denunciation of Boris Johnson’s threat to override Britain’s international treaty obligations in the EU withdrawal agreement, the barrister described the government’s actions as “lamentable”. Continue reading...

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  Brexit: internal market bill passes by 77 votes amid Tory party tension

  

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  30 Tory MPs abstain and two vote against controversial bill which will break international lawConservative MPs...

  30 Tory MPs abstain and two vote against controversial bill which will break international lawConservative MPs fired a warning shot at Boris Johnson’s conduct of the Brexit process on Monday night, as former cabinet ministers and attorney generals withheld support for a controversial bill which will break international law.One government source said the justice secretary, Robert Buckland, was “wobbly” and had asked for additional...

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  David Cameron joins former PMs warning against Boris Johnson's Brexit bill

  

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  Ex-attorney general Geoffrey Cox says breaking international law risks damaging UK’s standingDavid Cameron has become the...

  Ex-attorney general Geoffrey Cox says breaking international law risks damaging UK’s standingDavid Cameron has become the third former Conservative prime minister to express disquiet about Boris Johnson’s proposal to breach international law by unilaterally redrafting part of the Brexit deal with the EU, saying he had “misgivings” about the idea.In comments on Monday, before MPs began debating the internal market bill that sets out...

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  UK coronavirus live: Keir Starmer self-isolating after household member develops symptoms

  

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  Labour leader to work from home; Welsh health minister Vaughan Gething says national lockdown could be...

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