In case you thought Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s tradition warfare towards the so-called London elite had ended together with his decisi
In case you thought Boris Johnson’s and Dominic Cummings’s tradition warfare towards the so-called London elite had ended together with his decisive election victory, that it was merely a helpful campaigning trope, you’ll have to rethink.
As a result of Johnson’s chief aide Cummings strengthened the federal government’s excoriation of media and legal professionals when addressing Downing Avenue officers this morning, within the phrases of 1 official current.
Cummings described final evening’s Court docket of Enchantment suspension of the deportation of criminals to the Caribbean as ‘an ideal image of the British state’s dysfunction’.
He mentioned there should be ‘pressing motion on the farce that judicial assessment has turn into’.
The Tory manifesto promised a assessment of the judicial assessment course of – a pledge that has unsettled some within the authorized occupation.
Cummings mentioned to officers that the assist for the courtroom ruling amongst MPs and hacks ‘exhibits they nonetheless haven’t understood what the previous few years has been about, the nation exterior London is horrified however wealthy London is cheering the legal professionals’.
The Court docket of Enchantment was persuaded that a few of those that had been being deported could not have been in a position to defend themselves, as a result of they could not have been in a position to make use of their cell phones as a result of a malfunctioning mast.
Robert Peston is ITV’s Political Editor. This text initially appeared on his ITV information blog