Downing Street Insists Hermer Policy Veto Is in “Interests of Everyone”

After attorney general Richard Hermer changed the government-wide legal advice to make it more restrictive and give himself an effective veto over policy the government has been forced to insist it is still Labour ministers who are making policy. Farcical…

Starmer’s spokesman said this afternoon that “policy decisions are always for ministers to decide” and failed to deny that the official legal advice had been changed, saying instead “the situation is unchanged in that it is always for ministers to make policy.”[…] Read the rest