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[John Wilson]

This thread on Twitter by David Allen Green discusses this point
https://twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/1185820413718421504.

On Sun, 20 Oct 2019 at 18:52, Roland Perry
<lists at internetpolicyagency.com> wrote:
>
> In article <20191019223750.GA76551 at davros.org>, Clive D.W. Feather
> <clive at davros.org> writes
>
> >He wrote it but didn't sign it. Then wrote another one saying "delay would
> >be a mistake".
>
> On another list, people said a week or two ago that sending two letters
> would be a "breach of the Padfield principle (Padfield v Minister of
> Agriculture [1968] AC 997) which means that the government cannot
> exercise its powers in order to frustrate a statute"
>
> But I haven't followed that up to see if such a principle would in fact
> apply (although I think he *is* exercising a power by writing both the
> 2nd and third letter).
>
> --
> Roland Perry
>