Amal Clooney, George's wife and a human rights lawyer, resigns from her post as Special Emissary of the British Foreign Office for Freedom of Information to the World in protest against the bill presented by Boris Johnson's cabinet on the post Brexit which aims to modify some obligations assumed with the EU in violation of international law.
In a letter addressed today to the Foreign Minister, Dominic Raab, Clooney recalls having accepted at the time the role offered to her by the Tory government to help promote compliance in the various countries with the rules that protect media freedom, rules set precisely "by existing international law ". "I accepted because I believe in the importance of this case and because I appreciated the significant role played by the United Kingdom in protecting the international legal order," she adds, noting however that she was "baffled" by the current government's decision to file a law, the Internal Market Bill, which by its own admission violates international law ". A" deplorable "violation, even if described as" specific and limited ", Amal complains, stating that he has postponed his pending resignation until today of an interview with Raab, during which he now affirms that he had "no reassurance about an imminent change of position" regarding the law. "Therefore - he concludes - I have no alternative but to give up the position". (ANSA).