We don’t do politics, says head of Supreme Court
The head of Britain’s highest court has insisted judges “don’t do politics”, as he hit back at Government criticisms of “judicial activism”.
Challenged in a BBC interview over whether judges were meddling in politics, Lord Reed, the new Supreme Court president, said: “We don’t do politics. We do decide legal questions that have important political ramifications that can have important political consequences but the issue we decide is a strictly legal issue.”
He also said lawyers representing migrants in their asylum claims were not “activists”, as they were described in a Home Office video, but were simply doing their job.