It’s struck me as an academic lawyer that having Ken Clarke QC MP as the Lord Chancellor is very good for English law. He is well known to be an Europhile, so I am heartened by the fact he is most likely to preserve our legal position as a signatory of the European Convention of Human Rights. Indeed, as he says, scrapping the Human Rights Act would be ‘xenophobic, legal nonsense.”
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