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Let them eat cake

Rights bill hard to swallow

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Joshua Rozenberg
Jun 23, 2022
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The bill of rights bill is an example of Boris Johnson’s “cakeist” philosophy, the UK’s leading academic populariser of constitutional law says in a blog published today.

But Mark Elliott, professor of public law and chair of the faculty of law at the University of Cambridge, says the prime minister and his deputy Dominic Raab cannot have their cake and …

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