Silk but no silken tongue

LOOKING UP A REFERENCE in Hansard on 25 September, I realised I’d forgotten to watch the attorney general answering MPs’ questions a day earlier. What had I missed?

In response to questions about the government’s Internal Market Bill, Suella Braverman QC MP had stuck to her assertion that, as a matter of domestic law, it was proper for parliament to pass legislation that might breach international law or treaty obligations. But, she was asked by Joanna Cherry QC MP, hadn’t the Supreme Court said in the Gina Miller case that