Lawyers should not be deciding the fate of nations

LAWFARE, as the rise in lawyers being used to challenge and overturn democratically made decisions is known, has become too dominant in current politics, bringing governments to the edge of ruin.

- Tim Newark

The Rwanda Bill crisis is happening because legislation is needed to stop legal efforts to frustrate rules halting small boats crossings of the Channel.

The COVID inquiry is dominated by lawyers grandstanding in front of senior MPs and the Prime Minister in pursuit of their own agenda. Brexit was almost denied by rulings made by judges. And yet, we don't vote for lawyers, we vote for politicians to enact our will.

Boris Johnson won the 2019 general election with an 80-seat majority in part because the British people were fed up with legal wrangling over Brexit pursued through the courts by Remainers.

Now we are in a similar situation with legislation designed to close legal loopholes used by lefty lawyers to stop illegal migrants being flown Rwanda. Johnson's 2019 victory was about getting back control of our borders, yet legions of lawyers continue to be deployed to defy the democratic will of this country.