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Enemy of the people?

Why Liz Truss failed to defend the judges

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Joshua Rozenberg
Dec 19, 2021
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Why did the then lord chancellor fail to defend senior judges who were called “Enemies of the People” by the Daily Mail on 4 November 2016 for ruling that legislation would be needed to trigger Brexit?

Nothing was heard from Liz Truss for a couple of days. It was presumed that she was waiting for instructions from Downing Street. Eventually, Truss said t…

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