The British government is desperate to distance itself from the suggestion that it is proposing to breach international law. Yesterday, one of its law officers suggested that when the Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis had said this was indeed the case he was mistaken.
There are two problems with this argument. The first is that Lewis had been read…
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