However, responding to the former foreign secretary Jeremy Hunt during the Commons debate, Johnson confirmed the government did not believe a vote was necessary and that he intended to reinstate the commitment. It also says that passages in the act that make ministers solely accountable to parliament and not the courts does not preclude a judicial review. Johnson was criticised repeatedly for the move by Conservative MPs in the Commons. Ouster clauses that prevent judicial review have rarely been accepted by the courts, the opinion states. The legal advice from Macdonald, a former director of public prosecutions, says the act does not give ministers latitude to miss the target deliberately, and that it admits of no exception and leaves no ambiguity.
Following the vote, Johnson was attacked byJeremy Hunt.
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