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”.
长期以来，英国保守党一直为自己是维护法律和秩序的政党而自豪。如今，在议会不同寻常地承认以后，保守党似乎成为了维护“特定而有限”的法律和秩序的政党。北爱尔兰事务大臣布兰登•刘易斯(Brandon Lewis)（图右一）在回答有关一项将推翻英国退欧协议某些条款的立法的问题时，背离了英国政府先前的立场，即政府只是对该法进行狭义的解释。他承认，是的，这确实违反了法律，但只是以“一种特定而有限的方式”违反了法律。