Parliament is sovereign but it must still listen to the law
Sir Edward Garnier, QC Sir Edward Garnier
TIM IRELAND/PA Sir Edward Garnier: “Friends at the Bar looked at my decision to go into the Commons with derision”After 25 years in the House of Commons I leave
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After 25 years in the House of Commons I leave with many regrets, but also with a sense of liberation as I plan ahead for my post-Commons future. Looking back over that quarter century there are parliamentary occasions, triumphs and defeats, for me and for my party, that will forever remain with me.

Arriving in April 1992 after an election that the Conservative Party did not have much expectation of winning to find myself sitting on the government side of the chamber was as much a surprise as a joy; holding my seat in 1997 when I half-expected to be defeated was both a joy and a surprise.

The years that followed until 2010 brought hard and relentless slog and little political gain for my