Judges are fighting back against Boris Johnson - and they're right | Simon Jenkins

Supreme court justice Lord Kerr has condemned the government’s ‘unbridled power’. Who can disagree with him?

Boris Johnson is said to be bad at making friends, but he is good at making enemies. This week he has added judges and bishops to his lengthening list. The departing and longest-serving supreme court justice, Lord Kerr, has condemned the prime minister’s persistent abuse of the judiciary as “unbridled power” and a “slippery slope to dictatorship”. This comes on top of a statement from the ...