"The Lord Chancellor should regain all his traditional functions – and return to the Woolsack"
Telegraph: 3rd February 2025: Charles Moore writing for the Telegraph and clearly agreeing with the PopCon analysis that we need to undo Tony Blair's constitutional changes if we are ever to reempower our democratically elected parliamentarians
"...when Sir Keir ennobled his old friend Richard Hermer and made him Attorney General. It was the signal that Sir Keir believes in a global, rights-based, judge-enforced perfection which takes precedence over parliamentary democracy and the nation state...
...Under this Government, therefore, this un-British approach to the rule of law will stay, hamstringing ministerial action...
...The answer is that the Supreme Court should lose its new place and title and rejoin the Palace/Parliament, which it should never have left...
Any opposition party seeking to improve matters should offer a full alternative... ...I hereby float the revolutionary idea that we should put the clock back. The trouble started when Tony Blair introduced two major changes – the creation of the Supreme Court and the abolition of the Lord Chancellorship...
The stated intention of both changes was to mark a clearer separation between politics and the law. They had exactly the opposite effect. Through human rights interpretations, judges began to express political views...
...The answer is that the Supreme Court should lose its new place and title and rejoin the Palace/Parliament... The Lord Chancellor should become once again the leading lawyer in the government, and, as he always was, second in Cabinet rank to the Prime Minister – a constant reminder that the law is simultaneously intimately entwined with government..."