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Closing argument: ex-legal chief Jonathan Jones on Brexit, Covid and leaving government
Jonathan Jones’s three-decade civil service career came to an abrupt end in September when he quit over controversial elements of the internal market bill. The government’s former top lawyer tells Beckie Smith about his departure, cocktail recipes, and the legal side of the Covid crisis
Sir Jonathan Jones, pictured for CSW in 2019. Photos: Paul Heartfield
Sir Jonathan Jones chooses his words carefully. As a civil servant and a lawyer, you have to. But Jones is no longer a civil servant – and so he is finally free to say the things that many have undoubtedly been thinking over the last few months.
Interview: Jonathan Jones breaching the EU deal “would be disastrous”
The former head of the government legal service resigned when No 10 threatened to break an international treaty. With the difficult reality of Brexit now upon us, I asked whether we risk a repeat offence
Photo: Institute for Government
The UK government is having a crash course in the strictures of international agreements. Last year No 10 panicked that it had signed up to unacceptable commitments and threatened to break international law rather than implement them. The offending provisions of the Internal Market Bill were eventually withdrawn after further talks with the EU, but not before the resignation of the government’s most senior legal official, who was later followed by the law officer for Scotland.
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