Brexit strategy risks UK 'dictatorship', says ex-president of supreme court

Lord Neuberger condemns internal market bill for exempting some of its powers from legal challenge

The government's Brexit strategy is in danger of driving the UK down a very slippery slope" towards dictatorship" or tyranny", according to a former president of the supreme court.

Addressing an online meeting of lawyers, Lord Neuberger on Wednesday evening condemned the internal market bill, which enables the government to breach international law and exempts some of its powers from legal challenge.