What the papers say: The ‘enemies of the people’ row rumbles on

The Article 50 court cases sparked an angry backlash in the newspapers, with the judges involved famously labelled ‘enemies of the people’. Yesterday was the day the Supreme Court president Lord Neuberger hit back: Neuberger criticised politicians for being slow to defend judges and said the attacks on the justice system risked undermining the rule of law. One of his (unspoken) targets was the Daily Mail, which rallied against the ‘out of touch’ judges involved. Was the coverage too much? The Mail says not. In its editorial this morning, the paper offers a rare compliment to Neuberger, saying that his ‘outstanding intellect and integrity’ is not in question. But the paper goes on to say it doesn’t accept the charge that the coverage of the court cases around Article 50 risked undermining the rule of law. It calls the judges part of a ‘narrow, self-selecting elite’ and says that it’s obvious the final verdict made by the Supreme Court was a ‘matter of opinion as much as law’ – with the paper pointing to the split decision by the Supreme Court to back up its point.