In the eyes of Amal Clooney, Great Britain is violating the "culture of fair play". It is therefore discontinuing its services for the UK government.
Amal Clooney (42) stands by her principles – even if it costs her the job. As it became known on Friday, the British-Lebanese human rights lawyer and wife of Hollywood star George Clooney (59, "Up in the Air") is stepping down from her post as the British government's special representative for freedom of the press. This emerges from a letter to Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab (46), which was written by Clooney and published in the British "Daily Mail".
She doesn't want to support planned law
The letter states that Amal Clooney has always been proud of "Britain's reputation as an advocate of international law" and "the fair play culture for which it is known". However, the star lawyer could not endorse the single market law that the British government is currently working on. She calls the plans "regrettable", not least because the law "would, by the government's own admission, 'violate international law'".
For her, as the special envoy, it is "untenable (…) to urge other states to respect and enforce international obligations, while the UK declares that it has no intention of doing so itself," writes Clooney in her Letter. The lawyer, wife and mother of two children therefore have no choice but to resign from my office ".