From today's parliamentary debate on the draft Northern Ireland Protocol bill, as per video on Twitter (
here):
Hilary Benn:
"In the light of the comment she [Liz Truss] has just made about Article 16, why is the government not proposing to use the legal method to raise these questions with the EU through the treaty that it signed, rather than one claiming necessity when the Foreign Secretary is yet to give me a single example of when the British Government has claimed necessity for abrogating a treaty that is as negotiated and signed?"
Liz Truss:
"Madam Speaker, the reason I am putting this bill forward is because I am a patriot...and I'm a democrat."
What a dishonourable answer: we are proposing to break international law because we are patriots and democrats. Remind me, what was it Samuel Johnson said about patriotism?