Explainer
It is a fundamental principle of British Parliamentary Democracy, that Parliament is the supreme legal authority - and its members are chosen routinely through free and fair elections. Our government remains answerable to Parliament, whose members are in turn answerable to those who elected them, the British people.
With a Parliamentary Democracy system, Parliament holds the supreme authority to make, retain and repeal laws - and no court can overrule its legislation.
The very notion of a concept of an International Law - of a court comprised of peoples unelected by the British electorate, casting decisions unsupported by UK law, completely undermines this most basic of principles in how our democracy operates.
The UK, through its elected representatives, is able to agree to multinational agreements deemed to be in its national interest - but ultimately Parliament remains the supreme authority and can choose to act however it sees fit, answering only to those who elect them and hold the power to judge their performance in future elections.
It is perfectly fair and right that the UK should be expected to conform to the terms of international agreements that it has signed up to in good faith, and to be held accountable by the counterparties in those agreements should the terms not be adhered to. But it is equally in the gift of our Parliamentary Democracy that, should our Parliament wish to do so, for those agreements to be exited cordially.
There is no mechanism by which the UK should be judged against rules that the UK Parliament - and by extension the British electorate who chose them - did not agree to.
Britain Unbound wholly supports the continued implementation and championing of the core principles of our democracy, and uses the above as the foundation and the lens through which it evaluates all positions on the topics of the day.
