In September 2020, secretary of state for Northern Ireland Brandon Lewis admitted the government of Boris Johnson was happy to break international law and override an international Brexit treaty with the EU relating to Northern Ireland in its Internal Market Bill.

Now Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab is proposing a sweeping overhaul of the Human Rights Act which lawyers describe as dangerous and fuelled by political ideology not necessity.

Stephanie Boyce, president of the Law Society, said any changes to the Act should be led by evidence and not driven by political rhetoric. Professor Philippe Sands QC said: “The concern is that this will mark a further step in the government’s eager embrace of lawlessness, undermining the rights of all individuals, the effective role of British judges and the European court, and the devolution settlement into which the Human Rights Act is embedded.”

In her detailed criticism of the proposed changes in the Guardian’s opinion piece on 14 December, Director of Liberty, Martha Spurrier, writes among other things that “the government is also attempting to put itself above the law…”

But that is nothing new. This is a government led by that incompetent liar Boris Johnson who cares nothing about his team breaking international law, failing to follow the Covid rules he himself makes and who claimed to have got Brexit done a year ago while the truth is he still has not resolved the the most important issue: the situation of Northern Ireland.

How much longer will Britain have to tolerate this person attempting and failing to run 10 Downing Street, let alone running a country whose reputation has now sunk to an all-time low?