Britain’s Conservatives have long prided themselves as being the party of law and order. Now, after an extraordinary admission in parliament, it seems they are the party of “specific and limited” law and order. Answering questions about legislation which would override certain provisions of the Brexit withdrawal agreement, Brandon Lewis, the Northern Ireland secretary, departed from the government’s previous line that it was merely interpreting the law narrowly to admit that, yes, this was a breach, but only in “a specific and limited way”.
長期以來，英國保守黨一直爲自己是維護法律和秩序的政黨而自豪。如今，在議會不同尋常地承認以後，保守黨似乎成爲了維護「特定而有限」的法律和秩序的政黨。北愛爾蘭事務大臣布蘭登•路易斯(Brandon Lewis)（圖右一）在回答有關一項將推翻英國退歐協議某些條款的立法的問題時，背離了英國政府先前的立場，即政府只是對該法進行狹義的解釋。他承認，是的，這確實違反了法律，但只是以「一種特定而有限的方式」違反了法律。