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Adam Wagner KC
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Adam Wagner KC
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Barrister @DoughtyStreet. Chair @EachOtherUK. Author #EmergencyState. Views my own not of Doughty Street Chambers.
- Just a reminder Metropolitan Police initially said they wouldn’t investigate at all. It was only after a judicial review issued by @GoodLawProject (in which I acted led by Danny Friedman QC) police backed down, and published their secret policy on retrospective investigations.
- For what it's worth, I thought that Keir Starmer spoke with genuine moral authority - seemed to transcend the moment.
- British long jumper who just came 5th in the final saying that he works full time and has to be back at work on Friday. Extraordinary
- I think the outcome of the Met investigation is that the Prime Minister attended 6 illegal gatherings but attended 5 of them legally
- We need to wake up to the incredibly serious implications of the President of the United States actively promoting the far right racist and Islamophobe Katie Hopkins. For those (particularly US people) who are meeting her for the first time, some things you need to know (thread)
- A year ago, the idea that you could close every restaurant, café and pub in the capital without a Parliamentary vote or even a debate would have been unthinkable. Today we have allowed government by executive decree and it now seems normal. Covid lawmaking has corroded democracy
- Keir Starmer isn’t the first barrister PM but he is certainly the first in modern times to have had a truly stellar career before going into politics. He’s also someone who in 15 years at the Bar, practising in similar areas and after 6 years at the chambers he was a founding
- Credit to @PippaCrerar and @PaulBrandITV whose dogged reporting brought the criminal conduct at No. 10 into the light
- I was JOKINGWill all of the senior govt officials and ministers who have been in close contact with Javid now be self isolating or will they all be enrolled in a novel government experiment where they don’t have to?
- A few stories of people being arrested for protesting against the monarchy - unless they are threatening violence the police should leave well alone. Freedom of speech is as important a value in times of public mourning as it at any other time
- Not sure that whipping Conservative MPs to avoid a parliamentary standards investigation of the PM, where it’s obvious the fear is the committee’s power to demand documents, is the best look in the circumstances
- This is quite extraordinary. The police have declined to investigate potentially illegal Downing Street parties whilst they wait for Sue Gray's report, whilst Sue Gray is interviewing at length the *police* who were apparently witnesses to the events. It just boggles the mindTELEGRAPH: No10 police questioned by Gray over ‘parties’ #TomorrowsPapersToday
