Damien Green labels former home secretary’s controversial proposals ‘unconservative’In his interview on the Today programme this morning Damian Green, the former first secretary of state, explained why he thought Suella Braverman’s call for “notwithstanding” legislation, that would allow the UK to deport people to Rwanda regardless of what other laws say, made her like Putin. (See 9.23am.) He said:It’s not just all our own laws passed by parliament, and all international treaties that we have signed, that Suella wants to sweep away. She specifically says let’s sweep away all judicial review protection, and all common law protections, and that’s why I said on Twitter that this is the most unconservative proposal I have ever heard.Conservatives believe in a democratic country run by the rule of law. And dictators, Xi and Putin, would prefer to have the state completely untrammelled by any law. And so, as a democrat I oppose it.Parliament is a sovereign and can do what it likes, but it should also do it and pass it within the framework of the law …I would say to my colleagues, let’s conceive of the possibility that there’s not a Conservative government in power. Suppose Jeremy Corbyn had come to power and said, ‘I want to nationalise every bit of the British economy. And accept it’s going to be expensive if I have to it legally, so I have to pay compensation, so I’m going to pass a law that removes all legal constraints on the government, and I’m just going to confiscate the whole of the British economy.’ We would have been up in arms about that, and I think defending the principle that governments have to obey the law as well is really important for Conservatives. Continue reading…
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2023-11-17 10:33:17
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Senior Tory says Suella Braverman wants to act like Putin with hardline alternative Rwanda proposals – UK politics live
