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The British government’s latest Brexit plan doesn’t just shake the EU’s head in Brussels. Now he has also persuaded Amal Clooney to act: the prominent human rights lawyer has resigned from her post as Britain’s special envoy for press freedom.
This stems from a letter from Clooney to the British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, published by the British “Guardian”. Clooney cites Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s latest draft in the Brexit negotiations with the European Union as the reason for his resignation.
The British government plans to legally open the agreement with the EU on Northern Ireland, which Johnson himself signed. Responsible Secretary of State Brandon Lewis recently admitted that the government’s consideration of changing the provisions of the Withdrawal Treaty with the EU “to a very specific and limited degree” violates international law.
In his letter to Raab, Clooney called the government’s conduct “deplorable.” She was “horrified,” Clooney writes, when she learned that the government was planning a law that, if passed, would violate international law.
She is disappointed to have to take this step, according to Clooney. “I have always been proud of the UK’s reputation as a champion of international law and the ‘fair play’ culture for which it is known.” After the details of the “Internal Market Law” were known last week, it was initially held back. Since he has not received any guarantee that a change in the government’s position is imminent, he sees “no other alternative” to resign.
