Now the government keeps to the law now theres a lot of press about diplomatic immunity case i want to get onto that in a 2nd but i know you would. For a while perhaps you cant talk about it but there have been revelations that you are bugged on well i havent read those reparations i will of course say julian is in jail with a lot of islamic terrorists and belmarsh prison likely to remain for a couple of years while his extradition case goes through so. His fate will depend on the British Government or the British Government as it is in a couple of years time maybe but i think the conservatives would be happy to extradite him it may be that mr coburns government would not ok but i mean you have such a little illustrious history. Of human rights cases have you ever previously been bugged by the cia as you read talking to cloud i suspect ive been bugged by the russians by the americans by the us. I suspect that the role of an independent lawyer acting in cases where dissidents are up aga
That dont have a written constitution a Great Britain and saudi arabia and in saudi arabia they dont have a Supreme Court that is capable of holding the ruler the government to account and i think we can be proud of the fact that our Supreme Court did stop the government from getting rid of parliament for 5 weeks that was an outrage and of course it was the Supreme Court who protected parliamentary democracy so i guess we dont know whether we live in a parliamentary democracy or usual morning but you know very little constitutional no mans land where you know very well we dont have a written constitution why not where the country that gave the world the english language shakespeare and we are incapable apparently of writing down and goes deeper because you know in the sixtys when we gave independence to all these other former colonies we gave them our constitution we wrote it down here is a westminster constitution. So it may have the way they have it every day yeah but you know very w
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21 conservative mps have been suspended from the party after helping to defeat the government in last nights vote on mps taking control of todays parliamentary agenda. In other news, hong kong leader carrie lam is expected to announce the formal withdrawal of the extradition bill, which sparked three months of Anti Government demonstrations. And after battering the bahamas, killing at least seven people, Hurricane Dorian is heading for the florida coast. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine on the bbc news channel, bbc two and were joined today by viewers on bbc world. What a difference a day makes. After a hugely dramatic return to the commons after the summer break, borisjohnson lost his working majority, his first vote in the commons, and potentially control of the entire Brexit Process. Mps voted by 328 votes to 301 to take control of the parliamentary agenda as they look to block a no deal brexit. The commons will decide later whether to back the bill which would bring