Former head of government’s legal service says obligation that ministers must comply with international law – dropped from revised code – had irritated PMThe former head of the government’s legal service has accused Downing Street of “contempt for the rule of international law” after it quietly abandoned a key plank of the ministerial code.
In a sharply-worded letter to the Guardian, Paul Jenkins claimed the obligation that ministers must comply with international law had caused “intense irritation” to David Cameron.
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Source: theguardian.com