Judge rejects improper interference by MPs

Mrs Justice Whipple will decide media disclosure request on submissions from the parties alone

At a lively panel discussion last night, I was asked whether the courts had recently been interfering in politics. I responded by asking whether politicians were now interfering with the courts.

I was referring to a report last week by Patrick Daly, political correspondent at the PA news agency. It began:

Four Tory MPs and a peer who gave a disgraced form…