IT MIGHT not be one of his best known quotes, and it's not on the same par as the one about fighting them on the beaches, but that venerable sage Winston Churchill got it spot on when he declared: 'Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the others.'
Former clerk of the Commons Sir David Natzler has openly questioned an earlier decision and former first parliamentary counsel Sir Stephen Laws, QC, called last week's actions"deeply concerning".
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