The Scene Is Set for a Long and Bitter Constitutional Battle
Spectator, The; London › July 29, 2009
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It is easy to see how Downing Street will try to manipulate the debate. It is already claiming to represent the will of the British people against the last remnants of a Tory establishment ossified in an outdated House of Lords. But grave issues of freedom and law are at stake. As Lord Woolf went a long way to acknowledging in his fine speech in Cambridge last week, the best person to defend the independence of the judiciary is the Lord Chancellor sitting in Cabinet.
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The Scene Is Set for a Long and Bitter Constitutional Battle
Derry Irvine has not gone to pieces, as some former colleagues predicted that he would after being suddenly sacked as Lord Chancellor last June. Friends say that, if anything, he drinks less than he did in government and that his intellect is as sharp as ever.
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