Boris Johnson plans 'constitutional plumbing' to stop judges getting involved in political decisions

UK's Justice Secretary Robert Buckland has told UK media that the government is planning some “constitutional plumbing” to stop judges getting involved in political decisions. He did not elaborate on how this would happen, but he claimed that increasing the courts had become involved in taking political decisions because “government over the years has increasingly contracted out some of the political decision making”.



During PMQs yesterday the Tory Brexiter Sir Desmond Swayne raised this topic and asked UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson if he would “let bygones be top priority” - which seemed to be a way of asking if, instead of deciding not to revisit the supreme court prorogation decision (which might amount to letting bygones be bygones), Johnson would enact revenge.



But Johnson did not engage, and he just read out the wording from the manifesto.


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