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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Ministers will trash UK rule of law if they ignore European court, says former Lord Chief Justice

Rishi Sunak was warned on Thursday that his Government will be setting an “extraordinarily bad example for a country committed to the rule of law” if it caves in to Tory Rightwingers and allows ministers to ignore European court rulings.

The stark warning came from former Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd who stressed that a Government brushing aside court rulings that it did not like would be “symbolic of the breach of the rule of law”.

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